Bishop John ’Oke Afareha

Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Mar 1947		Born
30 Dec 1973	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Warri, Nigeria
3 Mar 1997	49.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
3 Mar 1997	49.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mina
14 May 1997	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mina
29 Mar 2010	63.0	Appointed	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
30 Mar 2010	63.0	Installed	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
18 Apr 2022	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for John ’Oke Afareha
(WikiData: Q1702261)
Bishop John ’Oke Afareha (born 10 Mar 1947) Bishop Emeritus of Warri

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

Event Place
Birth Place Oleh
Ordained Bishop Warri, Diocese of Warri

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Warri.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Albert Kanene Obiefuna †
Archbishop of Onitsha
Archbishop Patrick Ebosele Ekpu
Archbishop of Benin City

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
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 Donatus Aihmiosion Ogun, O.S.A. (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Oleh
Ordained Bishop	Warri, Diocese of Warri

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 29 Mar 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 149, Number 13,000
obp: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Additions/Corrections (front)
r: Bollettino, 18 Apr 2022

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