Bishop Emile Njeru †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya

Titular Bishop of Capsus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1930		Born
1958	28.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 May 1969	39.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya
22 May 1969	39.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Capsus
1 Aug 1969	39.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Capsus
5 Sep 1970	40.6	Died	Auxiliary Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Emile Njeru
Bishop Emile Njeru
(born 1930, died 5 Sep 1970)
Auxiliary Bishop of Eldoret

Event Place
Birth Place Kevote
Ordained Bishop Kololo Terrace, Kampala, Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda

a priest for 12.6 years
a bishop for 1.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli †
Titular Archbishop of Iconium
Archbishop Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga †
Archbishop of Kampala

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11857828

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 5, Number 231

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