Bishop Anthony Saliu Sanusi †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jan 1911		Born
17 Dec 1944	33.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lagos, Nigeria
29 May 1969	58.4	Appointed	Bishop of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria
1 Aug 1969	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria
14 Aug 1990	79.6	Retired	Bishop of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria
7 Dec 2009	98.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Anthony Saliu Sanusi
Bishop Anthony Saliu Sanusi
(born 2 Jan 1911, died 7 Dec 2009)
Bishop Emeritus of Ijebu-Ode

Event Place
Birth Place Iperu
Ordained Bishop Kololo Terrace, Kampala, Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda

a priest for 64.9 years
a bishop for 40.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli †
Titular Archbishop of Iconium
Archbishop Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga †
Archbishop of Kampala

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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:
Archbishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job (1971)
Anthony Olubunmi Cardinal Okogie (1971)
Bishop Michael Patrick Olatunji Fagun † (1971)
Bishop Boniface Nyema Dalieh † (1974)
Bishop Albert Ayinde Fasina † (1988)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q354272

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 200, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 5, Number 232

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