Archbishop Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou, Benin

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Jan 1941		Born
6 Jan 1966	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto Novo, Benin
19 Dec 1994	53.9	Appointed	Bishop of Kandi, Benin
25 Mar 1995	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kandi, Benin
29 Jan 2000	59.0	Appointed	Bishop of Porto Novo, Benin
18 Jun 2000	59.4	Installed	Bishop of Porto Novo, Benin
5 Mar 2005	64.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
2 Apr 2005	64.2	Installed	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
21 Aug 2010	69.5	Resigned	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
14 Sep 2023	82.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou, Benin

MicroData Summary for Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton
(WikiData: Q1893054)
Archbishop Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton (born 16 Jan 1941, died 14 Sep 2023) Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou

Ad Limina - September 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Avrankou
Ordained Bishop Kandi, Diocese of Kandi

a priest for 57.6 years
a bishop for 28.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Noël Laurent Boucheix, S.M.A. †
Bishop of Porto Novo
Principal Consecrator:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Nestor Assogba †
Bishop of Parakou
Bishop Vincent Mensah †
Bishop of Porto Novo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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 Eugène Cyrille Houndékon (2008)

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 21 Aug 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142, Number 12,537
i: Website of the Diocese, 18 Nov 2011
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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