Bishop Maurus Gervase Komba †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Tanga, Tanzania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1923		Born
15 Jul 1954	31.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
15 Dec 1969	46.9	Appointed	Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania
15 Mar 1970	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania
18 Jan 1988	65.0	Resigned	Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania
23 Feb 1996	73.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Tanga, Tanzania

MicroData Summary
Maurus Gervase Komba
Bishop Maurus Gervase Komba
(born 1923, died 23 Feb 1996)
Bishop Emeritus of Tanga

Event Place
Birth Place Litembo
Ordained Bishop Tanga, Diocese of Tanga

a priest for 41.6 years
a bishop for 25.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa †
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Eugéne Cornelius Arthurs, I.C. †
Titular Bishop of Tepelta
Bishop Eberhard (Hermann) Spiess (Spieß), O.S.B. †
Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa † (1952)
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Archbishop David James Mathew † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Bithynia
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley † (1926)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Telesphore Richard Mkude (1988)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q15105165

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 531

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