Bishop Kevin Joseph Aje †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Sokoto, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Apr 1934		Born
12 Jun 1966	32.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Jos, Nigeria
15 Oct 1982	48.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria
6 Jan 1983	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria
3 Dec 1984	50.6	Succeeded	Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria
10 Jun 2011	77.1	Retired	Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria
27 May 2019	85.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Sokoto, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for Kevin Joseph Aje
(WikiData: Q1740070)
Bishop Kevin Joseph Aje (born 25 Apr 1934, died 27 May 2019) Bishop Emeritus of Sokoto

Event Place
Birth Place Amper
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Sokoto, Diocese of Sokoto
Buried Place (Original) Holy Family, Cathedral, Sokoto, Diocese of Sokoto

a priest for 52.9 years
a bishop for 36.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Joseph Reddington, S.M.A. †
Bishop of Jos
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore

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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Timothy Joseph Carroll, S.M.A. (2002)
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah (2011)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Amper
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Sokoto, Diocese of Sokoto
Buried Place (Original)	Holy Family, Cathedral, Sokoto, Diocese of Sokoto

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 10 Jun 2011
c1: CB, 12 Jun 2011
d: CB, 27 May 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 77, Number 6,242

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