Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe

Bishop Emeritus of Yei, South Sudan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Apr 1943		Born
17 May 1970	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
21 Mar 1986	42.9	Appointed	Bishop of Yei, South Sudan
28 Nov 1986	43.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Yei, South Sudan
11 Feb 2022	78.7	Retired	Bishop of Yei, South Sudan

MicroData Summary
Erkolano Lodu Tombe
Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe
(born 25 Apr 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Yei

Ad Limina - March 2010: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bilinyang
Ordained Priest Piazza San Pietro, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Ss. Pierre et Paul, Cathedral, Khartoum, Archdiocese of Khartoum, Sudan

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Yei.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Archbishop of Nairobi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luis Robles Díaz †
Titular Archbishop of Stephaniacum
Archbishop Gabriel Zubeir Wako
Archbishop of Khartoum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga † (1957)
Archbishop of Nairobi
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Santo Loku Pio Doggale (2011)
Stephen Ameyu Martin Cardinal Mulla (2019)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1229130

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,249
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 11 Feb 2022

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