Bishop Edouard Kisonga Ndinga, S.S.S. †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Titular Bishop of Grumentum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Apr 1946		Born
7 Jun 1981	35.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
29 Oct 1999	53.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
29 Oct 1999	53.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Grumentum
30 Jan 2000	53.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Grumentum
30 Jan 2022	75.7	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
20 Aug 2025	79.3	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Edouard Kisonga Ndinga
Bishop Edouard Kisonga Ndinga S.S.S.
(born 26 Apr 1946, died 20 Aug 2025)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kinshasa

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

Event Place
Birth Place Kisantu
Ordained Bishop Martyrs, Stadium, Kanshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa
Death Place Kanshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa

a priest for 44.2 years
a bishop for 25.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Frédéric Cardinal Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M. †
Archbishop of Kinshasa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián
Titular Archbishop of Penafiel
Bishop Eugène Moke Motsüri †
Titular Bishop of Lestrona

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Frédéric Cardinal Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M. † (1976)
Archbishop of Kinshasa
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Kisantu
Ordained Bishop	Martyrs, Stadium, Kanshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa
Death Place	Kanshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1287580

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Number 13,692
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 188, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 30 Jan 2022
d: CB, 20 Aug 2025

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