Bishop Luke Paul Matlatarea, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Dec 1938		Born
10 Jan 1971	32.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
21 Jun 1988	49.5	Appointed	Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea
21 Sep 1988	49.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea
28 Mar 1998	59.2	Died	Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea

MicroData Summary
Luke Paul Matlatarea
Bishop Luke Paul Matlatarea M.S.C.
(born 15 Dec 1938, died 28 Mar 1998)
Bishop of Bereina

Event Place
Birth Place Malmal

a priest for 27.2 years
a bishop for 9.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Albert-Leo Bundervoet, M.S.C. †
Archbishop of Rabaul
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Peter Kurongku †
Archbishop of Port Moresby
Archbishop Benedict To Varpin †
Archbishop of Madang

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Albert-Leo Bundervoet, M.S.C. † (1980)
Archbishop of Rabaul
Bishop Léonce Albert Van Peteghem † (1964)
Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens † (1945)
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q47460015

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 111, Number 9,815
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)

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