Archbishop Alapati Lui Mata’eliga †

Deceased

Archbishop of Samoa-Apia, Pacific (Oceania)

Superior of Tokelau

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jan 1953		Born
5 Jul 1977	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Samoa and Tokelau, Pacific (Oceania)
16 Nov 2002	49.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Samoa-Apia, Pacific (Oceania)
3 Jan 2003	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Samoa-Apia, Pacific (Oceania)
22 Dec 2015	62.9	Appointed	Superior of Tokelau, Pacific (Oceania)
25 Apr 2023	70.3	Died	Archbishop of Samoa-Apia, Pacific (Oceania)

MicroData Summary
Alapati Lui Mata’eliga
Archbishop Alapati Lui Mata’eliga
(born 4 Jan 1953, died 25 Apr 2023)
Archbishop of Samoa-Apia

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Sataua, Vicariate Apostolic of Archipelago of the Navigators {Arcipelago dei Navigatori}, American Samoa
Ordained Bishop Tofa Mamao Centre, Leauvaa
Death Place Auckland, Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand

a priest for 45.8 years
a bishop for 20.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pio Cardinal Taofinu’u, S.M. †
Bishop of Apia, American Samoa
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Patrick Coveney †
Titular Archbishop of Satrianum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Petero Mataca †
Archbishop of Suva, Fiji
Bishop Soane Lilo Foliaki, S.M. †
Bishop of Tonga

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Patrick Coveney † (1985)
Titular Archbishop of Satrianum
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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:
Soane Patita Paini Cardinal Mafi (2007)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1561732

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Number 14,298
ab: Annuario Pontificio Variazioni, Year 2018, Number 17

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