Bishop Gabriel Simo †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bafoussam, Cameroon

Titular Bishop of Sereddeli

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Mar 1937		Born
27 Mar 1966	29.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bafoussam, Cameroon
26 Jan 1987	49.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Douala, Cameroon
26 Jan 1987	49.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sereddeli
26 Apr 1987	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sereddeli
11 Nov 1994	57.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bafoussam, Cameroon
14 Sep 2013	76.4	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Bafoussam, Cameroon
24 Nov 2017	80.6	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bafoussam, Cameroon

MicroData Summary
Gabriel Simo
Bishop Gabriel Simo
(born 15 Mar 1937, died 24 Nov 2017)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bafoussam

Event Place
Birth Place Bapa
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Grand Place, Douala, Archdiocese of Douala
Death Place Hospital, Bamengoum, Diocese of Bafoussam

a priest for 51.6 years
a bishop for 30.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Donato Squicciarini †
Titular Archbishop of Tiburnia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Simon Tonyé †
Archbishop of Douala
Bishop André Wouking †
Bishop of Bafoussam

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Donato Squicciarini † (1978)
Titular Archbishop of Tiburnia
Franz Cardinal König † (1952)
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Bishop Michael Memelauer † (1927)
Bishop of Sankt Pölten
Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl, C.R.S.A. † (1913)
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Archbishop Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Eugeniusz Juretzko, O.M.I. † (1991)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 1435918
WikiData: Q1489666

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 14 Sep 2013
d: CB, 24 Nov 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 103, Number 8,973

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