Bishop Vincent Billington, M.H.M. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kampala, Uganda

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 May 1904		Born
20 Jul 1930	26.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill
13 May 1948	43.9	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Kampala, Uganda
13 May 1948	43.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Avissa
26 Jul 1948	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Avissa
25 Mar 1953	48.8	Appointed	Bishop of Kampala, Uganda
3 May 1965	60.9	Resigned	Bishop of Kampala, Uganda
3 May 1965	60.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Fallaba
7 Dec 1970	66.5	Resigned	Titular Bishop of Fallaba
6 Oct 1976	72.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kampala, Uganda

MicroData Summary for Vincent Billington
(WikiData: Q56340417)
Bishop Vincent Billington M.H.M. (born 14 May 1904, died 6 Oct 1976) Bishop Emeritus of Kampala

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Blackburn, Lancashire, Diocese of Salford, England, Great Britain

a priest for 46.2 years
a bishop for 28.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop William Godfrey †
Titular Archbishop of Cius
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas Edward Flynn †
Bishop of Lancaster, England
Bishop Frederick Hall, M.H.M. †
Titular Bishop of Alba Maritima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop William Godfrey † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Cius
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Francis Greif, M.H.M. † (1951)
Bishop Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu † (1962)

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1948, Number 85
loc: CL, 23 Sep 2018

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