Bishop Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P.S. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Mar 1925		Born
9 Apr 1950	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
25 Nov 1964	39.7	Appointed	Prefect of Minna, Nigeria
17 Sep 1973	48.5	Resigned	Prefect of Minna, Nigeria
20 Nov 1975	50.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
20 Nov 1975	50.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Warri, Nigeria
20 Nov 1975	50.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forum Traiani
6 Jan 1976	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Forum Traiani
31 Aug 1991	66.4	Appointed	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
3 Mar 1997	72.0	Resigned	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
17 Apr 2010	85.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon
Bishop Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon S.P.S.
(born 1 Mar 1925, died 17 Apr 2010)
Bishop Emeritus of Warri

Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Ballylegan, Ireland
Ordained Priest St. Mary’s, Church, Killamoate, Kiltegan
Ordained Bishop College de la Propaganda, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 60.0 years
a bishop for 34.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John William Heffernan, C.S.Sp. †
Titular Bishop of Uzippari
Principal Consecrator:
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi †
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Bernardin Gantin †
Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou
Bishop James Moynagh, S.P.S. †
Bishop Emeritus of Calabar

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agnelo Cardinal Rossi † (1956)
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Bishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Bishop of Campinas
Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva † (1904)
Archbishop of São Paulo
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Camillus Archibong Etokudoh (1988)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 74155707014822410206
WikiData: Q1286498

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 34, Number 2,092
c1: CB, 6 Sep 2020

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