Bishop Jean Sommeng Vorachak †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos

Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Proconsulari

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Feb 1933		Born
29 Jun 1963	30.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Savannakhet, Laos
21 Apr 1997	64.1	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos
21 Apr 1997	64.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Proconsulari
19 Oct 1997	64.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Proconsulari
14 Jul 2009	76.3	Died	Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos

MicroData Summary
Jean Sommeng Vorachak
Bishop Jean Sommeng Vorachak
(born 24 Feb 1933, died 14 Jul 2009)
Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet

Ad Limina - September 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Xienwang

a priest for 46.0 years
a bishop for 11.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Thomas Khamphan †
Titular Bishop of Semina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Pierre-Antoine-Jean Bach, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Tituli in Proconsulari
Bishop Jean Khamsé Vithavong, O.M.I. †
Titular Bishop of Moglaena

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Thomas Khamphan † (1975)
Titular Bishop of Semina
Bishop Thomas Nantha † (1974)
Titular Bishop of Succuba
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:
Louis-Marie Ling Cardinal Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.Dei (2001)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1685830

Source(s):

d: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Number 13,160
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 200, Necrology (back)

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