Bishop Philip Sulumeti †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kakamega, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Aug 1937		Born
6 Jan 1966	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kisumu, Kenya
28 May 1972	34.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kisumu, Kenya
28 May 1972	34.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Urci
20 Aug 1972	35.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Urci
9 Dec 1976	39.3	Appointed	Bishop of Kisumu, Kenya
28 Feb 1978	40.5	Appointed	Bishop of Kakamega, Kenya
5 Dec 2014	77.3	Retired	Bishop of Kakamega, Kenya
9 Nov 2025	88.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kakamega, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Philip Sulumeti
Bishop Philip Sulumeti
(born 15 Aug 1937, died 9 Nov 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Kakamega

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kotur
Ordained Bishop Stadium, Kakamesa
Death Place Nairobi, Hospital, Nairobi, Archdiocese of Nairobi

a priest for 59.8 years
a bishop for 53.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa †
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Maurice Michael Otunga †
Archbishop of Nairobi
Bishop Joannes de Reeper, M.H.M. †
Bishop of Kisumu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa † (1952)
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Archbishop David James Mathew † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Bithynia
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley † (1926)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Mark Kadima Wamukoya (1993)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Obanyi Sagwe (2015)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth (1978)
Bishop Longinus Atundo † (1987)
Archbishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba (2010)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 9186148574331624430007
WikiData: Q2086467

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 5 Dec 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 22, Number 1,212
d: CB, 10 Nov 2025

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