Bishop Yohannes Woldegiorgis †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic of Meki, Ethiopia

Titular Bishop of Forma

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Dec 1921		Born
31 Oct 1954	32.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Adigrat (Ethiopian), Ethiopia
8 Sep 1981	59.6	Appointed	Prefect of Meki, Ethiopia
21 Dec 1991	69.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forma
21 Dec 1991	69.9	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Meki, Ethiopia
3 May 1992	70.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Forma
19 Sep 2002	80.7	Died	Vicar Apostolic of Meki, Ethiopia

MicroData Summary for Yohannes Woldegiorgis
(WikiData: Q1358676)
Bishop Yohannes Woldegiorgis (born 27 Dec 1921, died 19 Sep 2002) Vicar Apostolic of Meki

Event Place
Birth Place Alitena

a priest for 47.8 years
a bishop for 10.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alexius Obabu Makozi †
Bishop of Port Harcourt
Bishop Egidio Caporello †
Bishop of Mantova

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Leonardus Dobbelaar, C.M. † (1994)
Berhaneyesus Demerew Cardinal Souraphiel, C.M. (1998)
Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin (2002)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Alitena

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 131, Number 11,771
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Necrology (back)
d: Annuario Pontificio, Year 2003, Page 1,069

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