Bishop Mark Onwuha Unegbu †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Owerri, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jun 1917		Born
30 Jun 1944	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Onitsha-Owerri, Nigeria
12 Feb 1948	30.6	Incardinated	Priest of Owerri, Nigeria
23 Jun 1958	40.9	Incardinated	Priest of Umuahia, Nigeria
25 Jun 1970	52.9	Appointed	Bishop of Owerri, Nigeria
20 Sep 1970	53.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Owerri, Nigeria
1 Jul 1993	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Owerri, Nigeria
31 Oct 2002	85.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Owerri, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for Mark Onwuha Unegbu
(WikiData: Q13537678)
Bishop Mark Onwuha Unegbu (born 30 Jun 1917, died 31 Oct 2002) Bishop Emeritus of Owerri

Event Place
Birth Place Arondizuogu

a priest for 58.3 years
a bishop for 32.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francis Arinze
Archbishop of Onitsha
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anthony Gogo Nwedo, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop of Umuahia
Bishop Dominic Ignatius Ekandem †
Bishop of Ikot Ekpene

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francis Arinze (1965)
Archbishop of Onitsha
Archbishop Charles Heerey, C.S.Sp. † (1927)
Archbishop of Onitsha
Bishop Joseph (Ignatius) Shanahan, C.S.Sp. † (1920)
Titular Bishop of Abila Lysaniae
Bishop Denis Kelly † (1897)
Bishop of Ross
Archbishop Thomas William Croke † (1870)
Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly)
Paul Cardinal Cullen † (1850)
Archbishop of Dublin
Castruccio Cardinal Castracane degli Antelminelli † (1844)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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:
Archbishop Albert Kanene Obiefuna † (1978)
Archbishop Anthony John Valentine Obinna (1993)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Arondizuogu

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Necrology (back)
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 15, Number 813

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