Bishop Raymond Mwanyika †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Njombe, Tanzania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1930		Born
11 Oct 1959	29.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
16 Jan 1971	41.0	Appointed	Bishop of Njombe, Tanzania
25 Apr 1971	41.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Njombe, Tanzania
8 Jun 2002	72.4	Resigned	Bishop of Njombe, Tanzania
24 Oct 2013	83.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Njombe, Tanzania

MicroData Summary
Raymond Mwanyika
Bishop Raymond Mwanyika
(born 1930, died 24 Oct 2013)
Bishop Emeritus of Njombe

Event Place
Birth Place Uwemba

a priest for 54.0 years
a bishop for 42.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa †
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Eberhard (Hermann) Spiess (Spieß), O.S.B. †
Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus
Bishop James Dominic Sangu †
Bishop of Mbeya

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa † (1952)
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Archbishop David James Mathew † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Bithynia
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley † (1926)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Gabriel Mmole † (1988)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2134217

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 24 Oct 2013
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)

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