Bishop Charles Michael Hammawa

Bishop of Jalingo, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Oct 1962		Born
4 Jul 1987	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Yola, Nigeria
16 Apr 2008	45.5	Appointed	Bishop of Jalingo, Nigeria
4 Jul 2008	45.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Jalingo, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Charles Michael Hammawa
Bishop Charles Michael Hammawa
(born 1 Oct 1962)
Bishop of Jalingo

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mapeo
Ordained Bishop In front of, Cathedral, Jalingo, Diocese of Jalingo

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Jalingo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama
Archbishop of Jos
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Renzo Fratini
Titular Archbishop of Botriana
Bishop James Naanman Daman, O.S.A. †
Bishop of Shendam

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (1995)
Archbishop of Jos
Bishop Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A. † (1971)
Bishop of Yola
Archbishop Amelio Poggi † (1967)
Titular Archbishop of Cercina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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 Stephen Dami Mamza (2011)
Bishop Malachy John Goltok † (2011)
Bishop Mark Maigida Nzukwein (2023)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 683149196644074792045
WikiData: Q1065399

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 16 Apr 2008
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 195, Number 15,928
mn: CB, 24 Sep 2017

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