Bishop Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo

Bishop of Witbank, South Africa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jul 1954		Born
10 Oct 1991	37.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bethlehem, South Africa
11 Mar 2008	53.6	Appointed	Bishop of Eshowe, South Africa
7 Jun 2008	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Eshowe, South Africa
25 Nov 2020	66.3	Appointed	Bishop of Witbank, South Africa
20 Mar 2021	66.7	Installed	Bishop of Witbank, South Africa

MicroData Summary
Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo
Bishop Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo
(born 2 Jul 1954)
Bishop of Witbank

Ad Limina - April 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Gogela
Ordained Bishop Ground of, Little Flower School, Eshowe, Diocese of Eshowe

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Witbank.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Hubert Bucher †
Bishop of Bethlehem
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Hubert Bucher †
Bishop of Bethlehem
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Wilfrid Fox Cardinal Napier, O.F.M.
Archbishop of Durban
Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale, O.M.I.
Archbishop of Johannesburg

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Hubert Bucher † (1977)
Bishop of Bethlehem
Bishop Peter Fanyana John Butelezi, O.M.I. † (1972)
Bishop of Umtata
Bishop Alfredo Poledrini † (1965)
Titular Bishop of Vazari
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Vincent Mduduzi Zungu, O.F.M. (2014)
Archbishop Siegfried Mandla Jwara, C.M.M. (2016)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2598417

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 11 Mar 2008
ob: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Number 15,757
ab: Bollettino, 25 Nov 2020
i: CB, 19 Mar 2021

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