Bishop Marcel Bam’ba Gongoa †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1926		Born
21 Apr 1953	27.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
28 Jan 1980	54.0	Appointed	Bishop of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
4 May 1980	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
13 Nov 1992	66.8	Resigned	Bishop of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
17 Sep 1998	72.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Marcel Bam’ba Gongoa
Bishop Marcel Bam’ba Gongoa
(born 1926, died 17 Sep 1998)
Bishop Emeritus of Bondo

Event Place
Birth Place Benge, Vicariate Apostolic of Buta
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Esplanade du Palais du Peuple, Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa

a priest for 45.4 years
a bishop for 18.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi †
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula †
Archbishop of Kinshasa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64760973

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 60, Number 4,567

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