Bishop Wenceslas Compaoré †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Manga, Burkina Faso

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Nov 1934		Born
8 Sep 1962	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
2 Jan 1997	62.1	Appointed	Bishop of Manga, Burkina Faso
18 May 1997	62.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Manga, Burkina Faso
28 Dec 2010	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Manga, Burkina Faso
18 Jun 2023	88.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Manga, Burkina Faso

MicroData Summary
Wenceslas Compaoré
Bishop Wenceslas Compaoré
(born 8 Nov 1934, died 18 Jun 2023)
Bishop Emeritus of Manga

Ad Limina - March 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kombissiri
Ordained Bishop Sanctuaire marial, Yagma
Death Place Polyclinique Notre-Dame de la Paix, Ouagadougou, Archdiocese of Ouagadougou

a priest for 60.7 years
a bishop for 26.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré †
Archbishop of Ouagadougou
Bishop Anselme Titianma Sanon
Bishop of Bobo-Dioulasso

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
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 Gabriel Sayaogo (2011)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q657715

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 28 Dec 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 149, Number 13,003
d: CB, 20 Jun 2023

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