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Bishop Simon Akwali Okafor †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Awka, Nigeria

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ifitedunu
Ordained Priest	Ifitedunu
Ordained Bishop	Saint Patrick, Cathedral, Awka, Diocese of Awka

a priest for 51.1 years a bishop for 22.2 years

Ordained Priest by: Bishop Godfrey Mary Paul Okoye, C.S.Sp. † Bishop of Port Harcourt Principal Consecrator: Francis Cardinal Arinze Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Albert Kanene Obiefuna † Bishop of Awka Bishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job Bishop of Ibadan

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Francis Cardinal Arinze (1965) Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna Archbishop Charles Heerey, C.S.Sp. † (1927) Archbishop of Onitsha Bishop Joseph (Ignatius) Shanahan, C.S.Sp. † (1920) Titular Bishop of Abila Lysaniae Bishop Denis Kelly † (1897) Bishop of Ross Archbishop Thomas William Croke † (1870) Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly) Paul Cardinal Cullen † (1850) Archbishop of Dublin Castruccio Cardinal Castracane degli Antelminelli † (1844) Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina Pope Gregory XVI (1831) (Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †) Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786) Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760) Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina 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

Ordained Priest: Peter Ebere Cardinal Okpaleke (1992) Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu (2001)

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