Archbishop Nicodemus Kirima †

Deceased

Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Mar 1936		Born
22 Dec 1962	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nyeri, Kenya
27 Feb 1978	41.9	Appointed	Bishop of Mombasa, Kenya
14 May 1978	42.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mombasa, Kenya
12 Mar 1988	52.0	Appointed	Bishop of Nyeri, Kenya
21 May 1990	54.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
27 Nov 2007	71.7	Died	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Nicodemus Kirima
Archbishop Nicodemus Kirima
(born 3 Mar 1936, died 27 Nov 2007)
Archbishop of Nyeri

Event Place
Birth Place Karatina
Ordained Bishop Mombasa, Diocese of Mombasa

a priest for 44.9 years
a bishop for 29.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Archbishop of Nairobi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan †
Titular Archbishop of Amiternum
Bishop John Joseph Njenga †
Bishop of Eldoret

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga † (1957)
Archbishop of Nairobi
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Luigi Paiaro (2003)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Peter Kihara Kariuki, I.M.C. (1999)
Archbishop Martin Kivuva Musonde (2003)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1986058

Source(s):

d: CB
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 48, Number 3,300
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 57, Additions/Corrections (front)

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