Bishop John Alphonsus Ryan, S.P.S.

Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Feb 1952		Born
18 Jun 1978	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
26 Apr 2016	64.1	Appointed	Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi
27 Aug 2016	64.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi

MicroData Summary for John Alphonsus Ryan
(WikiData: Q23925423)
Bishop John Alphonsus Ryan S.P.S. (born 27 Feb 1952) Bishop of Mzuzu

Event Place
Birth Place Tipperary, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Priest Holycross, Abbey, Tipperary, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Bishop Mzuzu Upper, Stadium, Mzuzu, Diocese of Mzuzu

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Mzuzu.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Thomas Morris †
Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly)
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka
Bishop of Karonga
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye †
Archbishop of Lilongwe
Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa, S.M.M.
Archbishop of Blantyre

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka (2010)
Bishop of Karonga
Archbishop Nicola Girasoli (2006)
Titular Archbishop of Egnazia Appula
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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 Yohane Suzgo Nyirenda (2023)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Vincent Frederick Mwakhwawa (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Tipperary, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Priest	Holycross, Abbey, Tipperary, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Bishop	Mzuzu Upper, Stadium, Mzuzu, Diocese of Mzuzu

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 26 Apr 2016
ob: CB, 11 May 2016
c2+: CB, 9 Aug 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 229, Number 19,085
c1: CB, 23 Jun 2017

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