Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth

Archbishop Emeritus of Kisumu, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jul 1942		Born
14 Nov 1968	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kisumu, Kenya
27 Feb 1978	35.6	Appointed	Bishop of Kisumu, Kenya
30 Apr 1978	35.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kisumu, Kenya
21 May 1990	47.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Kisumu, Kenya
15 Nov 2018	76.3	Retired	Archbishop of Kisumu, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Zacchaeus Okoth
Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth
(born 5 Jul 1942)
Archbishop Emeritus of Kisumu

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Nyakach
Ordained Bishop Stadium, Kisuma, Diocese of Kisumu

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Kisumu.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Archbishop of Nairobi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan †
Titular Archbishop of Amiternum
Bishop Philip Sulumeti
Bishop of Kakamega

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 Linus Okok Okwach † (1993)
Bishop Joseph Mairura Okemwa (1995)
Bishop Alfred Kipkoech Arap Rotich (1996)
Bishop Norman King’oo Wambua (1998)
Bishop Patrick Joseph Harrington, S.M.A. (2000)
Bishop Dominic Kimengich (2010)
Bishop John Oballa Owaa (2012)
Bishop Joseph Obanyi Sagwe (2015)
Bishop Michael Cornelius Otieno Odiwa (2021)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 311818566
WikiData: Q139273

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 15 Nov 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 49, Number 3,375

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