Bishop Cornelius Piong

Bishop of Keningau, Malaysia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jul 1949		Born
27 Mar 1977	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
17 Dec 1992	43.4	Appointed	Bishop of Keningau, Malaysia
6 May 1993	43.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Keningau, Malaysia

MicroData Summary
Cornelius Piong
Bishop Cornelius Piong
(born 1 Jul 1949)
Bishop of Keningau

Ad Limina - June 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bundu

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Keningau.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Chung Hoan Ting
Archbishop of Kuching
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Anthony Soter Fernandez †
Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur
Bishop John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw
Bishop of Kota Kinabalu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Chung Hoan Ting (1970)
Archbishop of Kuching
Bishop James Buis, M.H.M. † (1952)
Titular Bishop of Astypalaea
Bishop Johannes Petrus Huibers † (1936)
Bishop of Haarlem
Archbishop Paolo Giobbe † (1925)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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:
Bishop Julius Dusin Gitom (2007)
Archbishop John Wong Soo Kau (2010)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1133909

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,155

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