Archbishop Valerian Maduka Okeke

Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Oct 1953		Born
11 Jul 1981	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Onitsha, Nigeria
28 Nov 2001	48.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria
9 Feb 2002	48.3	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria
1 Sep 2003	49.8	Succeeded	Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Valerian Maduka Okeke
Archbishop Valerian Maduka Okeke
(born 20 Oct 1953)
Archbishop of Onitsha

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Unudioka, Archdiocese of Onitsha
Ordained Bishop Holy Trinity, Cathedral, Onitsha, Archdiocese of Onitsha

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Onitsha.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Francis Arinze
Archbishop of Onitsha
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Osvaldo Montecillo Padilla
Titular Archbishop of Pia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Albert Kanene Obiefuna †
Archbishop of Onitsha
Bishop Anthony Okonkwo Gbuji
Bishop of Enugu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Osvaldo Montecillo Padilla (1991)
Titular Archbishop of Pia
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor (2007)
Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo (2008)
Bishop Callistus Chukwuma Valentine Onaga (2009)
Bishop Godfrey Igwebuike Onah (2013)
Bishop Jonas Benson Okoye (2014)
Bishop Denis Chidi Isizoh (2015)
Bishop Ernest Anaezichukwu Obodo (2018)
Bishop Peter Nworie Chukwu (2021)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 24553712
WikiData: Q2484118

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 166, Number 14,130
ab: Bollettino, 28 Nov 2021

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