Bishop Dominic Su Haw Chiu †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Sibu, Malaysia

Motto: Laudetur Dominus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 May 1939		Born
28 Apr 1969	29.9	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Kuching, Malaysia
4 Dec 1969	30.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kuching, Malaysia
22 Dec 1986	47.5	Appointed	Bishop of Sibu, Malaysia
6 Jan 1987	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sibu, Malaysia
11 Feb 1987	47.7	Installed	Bishop of Sibu, Malaysia
24 Dec 2011	72.5	Resigned	Bishop of Sibu, Malaysia
15 May 2026	86.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Sibu, Malaysia

MicroData Summary
Dominic Su Haw Chiu
Bishop Dominic Su Haw Chiu
(born 29 May 1939, died 15 May 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Sibu

Ad Limina - June 2008: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Sibu, Prefecture Apostolic of Sarawak
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Sibu General, Hospital, Sibu, Diocese of Sibu
Buried Place (Original) Nirvana Memorial Park, Jalan Oya, Diocese of Sibu

a priest for 56.4 years
a bishop for 39.3 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Karl (Charles) Reiterer, M.H.M. †
Titular Bishop of Sidyma
Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Karl (Charles) Reiterer, M.H.M. †
Titular Bishop of Sidyma
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop José Tomás Sánchez †
Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Segovia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Joseph Hii Teck Kwong (2008)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1237655

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 24 Dec 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 101, Number 8,773
od/c01/i/d: CB, 15 May 2026

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