Bishop Bernard Emmanuel Kasanda Mulenga

Bishop of Mbujimayi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Dec 1954		Born
6 Aug 1981	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mbujimayi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
14 Feb 1998	43.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mbujimayi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
14 Feb 1998	43.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Utimmira
14 Jun 1998	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Utimmira
1 Aug 2009	54.6	Appointed	Bishop of Mbujimayi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Bernard Emmanuel Kasanda Mulenga
Bishop Bernard Emmanuel Kasanda Mulenga
(born 25 Dec 1954)
Bishop of Mbujimayi

Ad Limina - January 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kananga, Vicariate Apostolic of Luluabourg
Ordained Bishop Open Air, MIBA, Stadium, Mbujimayi, Diocese of Mbujimayi

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Mbujimayi.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku †
Bishop of Mbujimayi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Godefroid Mukeng’a Kalond, C.I.C.M. †
Archbishop of Kananga
Bishop Valentin Masengo Nkinda †
Bishop of Kabinda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku † (1970)
Bishop of Mbujimayi
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula † (1959)
Archbishop of Kinshasa
Bishop Félix Scalais, C.I.C.M. † (1953)
Titular Bishop of Casius
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q822389

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 1 Aug 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Number 13,337
opd: CB, 19 Jul 2024

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