Bishop Evaristo Marc Chengula, I.M.C. †

Deceased

Bishop of Mbeya, Tanzania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jan 1941		Born
15 Oct 1970	29.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Consolata Missionaries
8 Nov 1996	55.8	Appointed	Bishop of Mbeya, Tanzania
2 Feb 1997	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mbeya, Tanzania
21 Nov 2018	77.8	Died	Bishop of Mbeya, Tanzania

MicroData Summary
Evaristo Marc Chengula
Bishop Evaristo Marc Chengula I.M.C.
(born 1 Jan 1941, died 21 Nov 2018)
Bishop of Mbeya

Event Place
Birth Place Mdabulo
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Sokoine, Stadium, Mbeya, Archdiocese of Mbeya
Death Place Dar-es-Salaam, Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam

a priest for 48.0 years
a bishop for 21.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega
Archbishop of Songea
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James Dominic Sangu †
Bishop Emeritus of Mbeya
Bishop Tarcisius Ngalalekumtwa
Bishop of Iringa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega (1986)
Archbishop of Songea
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:
Archbishop Gervas John Mwasikwabhila Nyaisonga (2011)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1381529

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Number 12,917
d: CB, 21 Nov 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)

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