Bishop Atanasio Amisse Canira

Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 May 1962		Born
12 Dec 1993	31.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nacala, Mozambique
8 Feb 2015	52.7	Appointed	Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique
22 Mar 2015	52.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique

MicroData Summary
Atanasio Amisse Canira
Bishop Atanasio Amisse Canira
(born 2 May 1962)
Bishop of Lichinga

Ad Limina - May 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mossoril

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Lichinga.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Germano Grachane, C.M.
Bishop of Nacala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Elio Giovanni Greselin, S.C.I.
Bishop Emeritus of Lichinga
Bishop Lucio Andrice Muandula
Bishop of Xai-Xai

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Germano Grachane, C.M. (1990)
Bishop of Nacala
Archbishop Manuel da Silva Vieira Pinto † (1967)
Archbishop of Nampula
Maximilien Cardinal de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q19259752

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 8 Feb 2015
ob: CB, 21 Feb 2015
c2+: CB, 23 Mar 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 222, Number 18,393

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