Bishop Tobias Wunganayi Chiginya †

Deceased

Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Mar 1935		Born
28 Aug 1966	31.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gwelo, Zimbabwe
3 Feb 1977	41.9	Appointed	Bishop of Gwelo, Zimbabwe
30 Apr 1977	42.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gwelo, Zimbabwe
14 Jan 1987	51.8	Died	Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe

MicroData Summary
Tobias Wunganayi Chiginya
Bishop Tobias Wunganayi Chiginya
(born 5 Mar 1935, died 14 Jan 1987)
Bishop of Gweru

Event Place
Birth Place Hama
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Mkoba, Stadium, Gwelo, Diocese of Gwelo

a priest for 20.3 years
a bishop for 9.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Aloysius Haene, S.M.B. †
Bishop Emeritus of Gwelo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Patrick Fani Chakaipa †
Archbishop of Salisbury
Bishop Ernst Heinrich Karlen, C.M.M. †
Bishop of Bulawayo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Aloysius Haene, S.M.B. † (1950)
Bishop Emeritus of Gwelo
Bishop Aston Ignatius (Sebastian Joseph) Chichester, S.J. † (1931)
Titular Bishop of Ubaza
Archbishop Bernhard Adriaan (Jordaan) Gijlswijk, O.P. † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Euchaitae
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa † (1982)
Bishop Helmut Reckter, S.J. † (1986)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64775413

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 42, Number 2,817

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