Bishop Senan Louis O’Donnell, O.S.A. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Maiduguri, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Feb 1927		Born
17 Jul 1955	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of St. Augustine
18 Sep 1993	66.5	Appointed	Bishop of Maiduguri, Nigeria
28 Nov 1993	66.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Maiduguri, Nigeria
28 Feb 2003	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Maiduguri, Nigeria
12 Apr 2023	96.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Maiduguri, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Senan Louis O’Donnell
Bishop Senan Louis O’Donnell O.S.A.
(born 24 Feb 1927, died 12 Apr 2023)
Bishop Emeritus of Maiduguri

Event Place
Birth Place Scattery Island, Diocese of Killaloe, Ireland
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Maiduguri, Diocese of Maiduguri
Death Place St. Michael's, Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland

a priest for 67.7 years
a bishop for 29.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A. †
Bishop of Yola
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ayo-Maria Atoyebi, O.P. †
Bishop of Ilorin
Bishop Joseph Sunday Ajomo †
Bishop of Lokoja

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A. † (1971)
Bishop of Yola
Archbishop Amelio Poggi † (1967)
Titular Archbishop of Cercina
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso (2003)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1423701

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,180
d: CB, 14 Apr 2023

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