Bishop Gregory Obinna Ochiagha †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Orlu, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 Aug 1931		Born
31 Jul 1960	28.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Umuahia, Nigeria
29 Nov 1980	49.2	Appointed	Bishop of Orlu, Nigeria
6 Jan 1981	49.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Orlu, Nigeria
25 Mar 2008	76.5	Retired	Bishop of Orlu, Nigeria
29 Dec 2020	89.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Orlu, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for Gregory Obinna Ochiagha
(WikiData: Q960733)
Bishop Gregory Obinna Ochiagha (born 31 Aug 1931, died 29 Dec 2020) Bishop Emeritus of Orlu

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ibeme
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Annunciation, Hospital, Enugu, Diocese of Enugu

a priest for 60.4 years
a bishop for 39.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Canestri †
Titular Archbishop of Forum Clodii
Bishop Belchior Joaquim da Silva Neto, C.M. †
Bishop of Luz, Minas Gerais

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Thomas Ifeanyichukwu Obiatuegwu (1995)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Anthony John Valentine Obinna (1993)
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (1995)
Bishop Augustine Tochukwu Ukwuoma (2008)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ibeme
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Annunciation, Hospital, Enugu, Diocese of Enugu

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 25 Mar 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 64, Number 5,011
d: CB, 29 Dec 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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