Archbishop Dieudonné Datonou

Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi

Titular Archbishop of Vico Equense

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Mar 1962		Born
7 Dec 1989	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cotonou, Benin
7 Oct 2021	59.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi
7 Oct 2021	59.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Vico Equense
20 Nov 2021	59.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Vico Equense

MicroData Summary
Dieudonné Datonou
Archbishop Dieudonné Datonou
(born 3 Mar 1962)
Apostolic Nuncio of Burundi

Event Place
Birth Place Dékanmè, Benin
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Nunciature to Burundi.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Christophe Adimou †
Archbishop of Cotonou
Principal Consecrator:
Pietro Cardinal Parolin
Cardinal-Bishop of Santi Simone e Giuda Taddeo a Torre Angela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra
Titular Archbishop of Thelepte
Archbishop Protase Rugambwa
Bishop Emeritus of Kigoma

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pietro Cardinal Parolin (2009)
Cardinal-Bishop of Santi Simone e Giuda Taddeo a Torre Angela
Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P. (2025)
Bishop Léonidas Nitereka (2025)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 266530493
WikiData: Q108590477

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 7 Oct 2021
ob/c2+: CB, 6 Nov 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Number 20,814

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