Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua

Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda, Cameroon

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jul 1943		Born
29 Dec 1971	28.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
10 Sep 1982	39.1	Appointed	Bishop of Kumbo, Cameroon
8 Dec 1982	39.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kumbo, Cameroon
7 Dec 2004	61.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Bamenda, Cameroon
23 Jan 2006	62.5	Succeeded	Archbishop of Bamenda, Cameroon
30 Dec 2019	76.4	Retired	Archbishop of Bamenda, Cameroon

MicroData Summary for Cornelius Fontem Esua
(WikiData: Q1133796)
Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua (born 2 Jul 1943) Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda

Ad Limina - March 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mbetta
Ordained Bishop Open Air, near S. Augustin College, Kumbo, Diocese of Kumbo

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Bamenda.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Donato Squicciarini †
Titular Archbishop of Tiburnia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov †
Archbishop of Bamenda
Bishop Pius Suh Awa †
Bishop of Buéa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Donato Squicciarini † (1978)
Titular Archbishop of Tiburnia
Franz Cardinal König † (1952)
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Bishop Michael Memelauer † (1927)
Bishop of Sankt Pölten
Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl, C.R.S.A. † (1913)
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Archbishop Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Miabesue Bibi (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Eugeniusz Juretzko, O.M.I. † (1991)
Bishop Emmanuel Bushu (1993)
Bishop Jean-Marie Benoît Balla † (2003)
Bishop George Nkuo (2006)
Bishop Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon (2011)
Bishop Dieudonné Espoir Atangana (2012)

Source(s):

s: Bollettino, 23 Jan 2006
r: Bollettino, 30 Dec 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 77, Number 6,234

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