Bishop Athanasius Atule Usuh †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Makurdi, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 May 1942		Born
19 Dec 1971	29.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Makurdi, Nigeria
18 Nov 1987	45.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria
6 Jan 1988	45.6	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria
2 Jun 1989	47.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria
28 Mar 2015	72.9	Retired	Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria
14 Jul 2016	74.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Makurdi, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for Athanasius Atule Usuh
(WikiData: Q754832)
Bishop Athanasius Atule Usuh (born 2 May 1942, died 14 Jul 2016) Bishop Emeritus of Makurdi

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mbagen

a priest for 44.5 years
a bishop for 28.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop William Amove Avenya (2009)
Bishop Peter Iorzuul Adoboh † (2013)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (1995)
Bishop Fidelis Uga Orgah † (1995)
Archbishop Matthew Ishaya Audu (2001)
Bishop Michael Ekwoy Apochi (2003)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Mbagen

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 107, Number 9,426
r: Bollettino, 28 Mar 2015
d: CB, 14 Jul 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)

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