Bishop Joseph Bolangi Egwanga Ediba Tasame †

Deceased

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

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Dec 1937		Born
6 Jan 1966	28.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
24 Jan 1974	36.0	Appointed	Bishop of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
14 Jul 1974	36.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
22 Oct 2009	71.8	Resigned	Bishop of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1 Jul 2019	81.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Joseph Bolangi Egwanga Ediba Tasame
Bishop Joseph Bolangi Egwanga Ediba Tasame
(born 29 Dec 1937, died 1 Jul 2019)
Bishop Emeritus of Budjala

Ad Limina - January 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mbaya
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Our Lady, Budjala, Diocese of Budjala
Death Place Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa

a priest for 53.4 years
a bishop for 44.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop François Van den Berghe, C.I.C.M. †
Bishop Emeritus of Budjala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Louis Nganga a Ndzando †
Bishop of Lisala
Bishop Joseph Kesenge Wandangakongu †
Bishop of Molegbe

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop François Van den Berghe, C.I.C.M. † (1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Budjala
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Dellepiane † (1929)
Titular Archbishop of Stauropolis
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Philibert Tembo Nlandu, C.I.C.M. (2007)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1706636

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 22 Oct 2009
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 27, Number 1,513

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