Bishop Noel Charles O’Regan, S.M.A.

Bishop Emeritus of Ndola, Zambia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Dec 1941		Born
18 Dec 1967	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of African Missions
10 Jul 1995	53.5	Appointed	Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia
10 Dec 1995	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia
1 Oct 2004	62.7	Appointed	Bishop of Ndola, Zambia
16 Jan 2010	68.0	Resigned	Bishop of Ndola, Zambia

MicroData Summary
Noel Charles O’Regan
Bishop Noel Charles O’Regan S.M.A.
(born 14 Dec 1941)
Bishop Emeritus of Ndola

Ad Limina - October 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bishopstown, Ireland

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ndola.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza
Titular Archbishop of Lilybaeum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Dennis Harold De Jong †
Bishop of Ndola
Bishop Telesphore George Mpundu †
Bishop of Mpika

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza (1990)
Titular Archbishop of Lilybaeum
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
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 Alick Banda (2007)
Archbishop Kieran O’Reilly, S.M.A. (2010)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1995334

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 16 Jan 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Number 12,671

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