Bishop Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Tarawa and Nauru, Kiribati, Pacific (Oceania)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Dec 1939		Born
18 Jan 1969	29.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
15 Nov 1978	38.9	Appointed	Bishop of Tarawa, Nauru and Funafuti, Kiribati, Pacific (Oceania)
10 Feb 1979	39.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tarawa, Nauru and Funafuti, Kiribati, Pacific (Oceania)
29 Jun 2020	80.5	Retired	Bishop of Tarawa and Nauru, Kiribati, Pacific (Oceania)
24 Jun 2021	81.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Tarawa and Nauru, Kiribati, Pacific (Oceania)

MicroData Summary
Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea
Bishop Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea M.S.C.
(born 16 Dec 1939, died 24 Jun 2021)
Bishop Emeritus of Tarawa and Nauru

Event Place
Birth Place Nuku Beru
Ordained Bishop Tarawa, Diocese of Tarawa, Nauru and Funafuti, Kiribati
Death Place Tungaru Central, Hospital, Nawerewere, Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru, Kiribati
Buried Place (Original) Next to, Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Teaoraereke, Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru, Kiribati

a priest for 52.4 years
a bishop for 42.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Pierre-Auguste-Antoine-Marie Guichet, M.S.C. †
Bishop Emeritus of Tarawa, Kiribati
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Angelo Acerbi
Titular Archbishop of Zella
Pio Cardinal Taofinu’u, S.M. †
Bishop of Apia, American Samoa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Pierre-Auguste-Antoine-Marie Guichet, M.S.C. † (1961)
Bishop Emeritus of Tarawa, Kiribati
Bishop Jean-Joseph-Léonce Villepelet † (1936)
Bishop of Nantes
Archbishop Louis-Joseph Fillon † (1929)
Archbishop of Bourges
Louis-Joseph Cardinal Maurin † (1911)
Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)
Paulin-Pierre Cardinal Andrieu † (1901)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Archbishop Jean-Augustin Germain † (1897)
Archbishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne)
Bishop Félix-Auguste Béguinot † (1896)
Bishop of Nîmes (-Uzès e Alès)
Jean-Pierre Cardinal Boyer † (1878)
Archbishop of Bourges
Archbishop Théodore-Augustin Forcade, M.E.P. † (1847)
Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun)
Bishop Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati, O.F.M. Ref. † (1840)
Titular Bishop of Arad
Bishop Joachin (Gioacchino Domenico) Salvetti, O.F.M. Obs. † (1817)
Titular Bishop of Euroea in Epiro
Bishop Cajetan Pires Pireira, C.M. † (1806)
Bishop of Nanking [Nanjing]
Bishop Alexandre de Gouvea (Gouveia), T.O.R. † (1783)
Bishop of Peking [Beijing]
Archbishop Francisco da Assumpção e Brito, O.E.S.A. † (1773)
Archbishop of Goa
João Cosme Cardinal da Cunha (de Nossa Senhora da Porta), C.R.S.A. † (1746)
Archbishop of Évora
Tomás Cardinal de Almeida † (1707)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde † (1706)
Titular Bishop of Targa
Bishop Álvaro de Abranches e Noronha † (1694)
Bishop of Leiria
Bishop João de Sousa † (1684)
Bishop of Porto
Archbishop Veríssimo de Lencastre † (1671)
Archbishop Emeritus of Braga
Bishop Francesco Ravizza † (1667)
Titular Bishop of Sidon
Neri Cardinal Corsini † (1652)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Fabio Cardinal Chigi † (1635)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Bishop Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1635)
Bishop of Malta
Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio † (1627)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Cosimo Cardinal de Torres † (1621)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
Maffeo (Virginio Romolo) Cardinal Barberini † (1604)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Patriarch Fabio Biondi (Blondus de Montealto) † (1588)
Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga † (1585)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
Pope Pius V (1556)
(St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †)
Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531)
Archbishop of Taranto
Pope Clement VII (1517)
(Giulio de’ Medici †)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Julio Angkel (2018)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q551077

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 29 Jun 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 54, Number 3,892
d: CB, 24 Jun 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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