Archbishop Jean Mbarga

Archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 May 1956		Born
5 Dec 1981	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Yaoundé, Cameroon
15 Oct 2004	48.4	Appointed	Bishop of Ebolowa-Kribi, Cameroon
5 Dec 2004	48.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ebolowa-Kribi, Cameroon
29 Jul 2013	57.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Yaoundé, Cameroon
31 Oct 2014	58.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon

MicroData Summary
Jean Mbarga
Archbishop Jean Mbarga
(born 18 May 1956)
Archbishop of Yaoundé

Ad Limina - March 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ebolmedzo

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Yaoundé.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Jean Zoa †
Archbishop of Yaoundé
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Eliseo Antonio Ariotti
Titular Archbishop of Vibiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot
Archbishop of Yaoundé
Bishop Raphaël Marie Ze †
Bishop of Sangmélima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Eliseo Antonio Ariotti (2003)
Titular Archbishop of Vibiana
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Befe Ateba † (2008)
Bishop Damase Zinga Atangana (2015)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 37031202
WikiData: Q653068

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Number 14,720
ab: Bollettino, 29 Jul 2013
ab: Bollettino, 31 Oct 2014

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