Bishop Gaston Kashala Ruwezi, S.D.B.

Bishop of Sakania-Kipushi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1961		Born
14 Jul 1990	29.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
7 Apr 2004	42.9	Appointed	Bishop of Sakania-Kipushi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
14 Aug 2004	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sakania-Kipushi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Gaston Kashala Ruwezi
Bishop Gaston Kashala Ruwezi S.D.B.
(born 14 Apr 1961)
Bishop of Sakania-Kipushi

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

Event Place
Birth Place Lubumbashi

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Sakania-Kipushi.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa †
Archbishop of Lubumbashi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni d’Aniello
Titular Archbishop of Pesto
Bishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga Mbayo, S.D.B. †
Bishop of Uvira

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa † (1974)
Archbishop of Lubumbashi
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Martín Lasarte Topolansky, S.D.B. (2023)
Bishop Léonard Kakudji Muzinga (2024)
Bishop Désiré Lenge Mukwenye (2024)
Bishop Jean-Marie Vianney Musul Masas (2026)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1495579

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 176, Number 14,672

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