Bishop Francis Xavier Mugadzi †

Deceased

Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Feb 1931		Born
12 Dec 1964	33.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gweru, Zimbabwe
25 Oct 1988	57.6	Appointed	Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe
14 Jan 1989	57.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe
6 Feb 2004	72.9	Died	Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe

MicroData Summary
Francis Xavier Mugadzi
Bishop Francis Xavier Mugadzi
(born 20 Feb 1931, died 6 Feb 2004)
Bishop of Gweru

Event Place
Birth Place Gokomere

a priest for 39.1 years
a bishop for 15.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Aloysius Haene, S.M.B. †
Bishop Emeritus of Gwelo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Patrick Coveney †
Titular Archbishop of Satrianum
Archbishop Patrick Fani Chakaipa †
Archbishop of Harare

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Aloysius Haene, S.M.B. † (1950)
Bishop Emeritus of Gwelo
Bishop Aston Ignatius (Sebastian Joseph) Chichester, S.J. † (1931)
Titular Bishop of Ubaza
Archbishop Bernhard Adriaan (Jordaan) Gijlswijk, O.P. † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Euchaitae
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Dixon Bhasera (1991)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q19279730

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 113, Number 10,035
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)

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