Bishop Marko Sopi †

Deceased

Apostolic Administrator of Prizren-Prishtina, Kosovo

Titular Bishop of Celerina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Feb 1938		Born
29 Jun 1968	30.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Prizren, Kosovo
2 Nov 1995	57.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Skopje-Prizren, North Macedonia
2 Nov 1995	57.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Celerina
6 Jan 1996	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Celerina
24 May 2000	62.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Kosovo
11 Jan 2006	67.8	Died	Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Kosovo

MicroData Summary
Marko Sopi
Bishop Marko Sopi
(born 26 Feb 1938, died 11 Jan 2006)
Apostolic Administrator of Prizren-Prishtina

Event Place
Birth Place Binac

a priest for 37.5 years
a bishop for 10.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Jorge María Mejía †
Titular Archbishop of Apollonia

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 Dodë Gjergji (2006)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 136457007
WikiData: Q1900434

Source(s):

d: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,649
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 187, Necrology (back)

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