Bishop Léon Lesambo Ndamwize †

Deceased

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

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jun 1929		Born
21 Jul 1956	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
12 Jun 1967	37.9	Appointed	Bishop of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
15 Oct 1967	38.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
27 Jul 2005	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
19 Nov 2017	88.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Léon Lesambo Ndamwize
Bishop Léon Lesambo Ndamwize
(born 21 Jun 1929, died 19 Nov 2017)
Bishop Emeritus of Inongo

Event Place
Birth Place Mushie, Vicariate Apostolic of Inongo
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Inongo, Diocese of Inongo
Death Place Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa
Buried Place (Original) Saint-Albert, Cathedral, Inongo, Diocese of Inongo

a priest for 61.3 years
a bishop for 50.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jean Émile André Marie Maury †
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M. †
Titular Bishop of Uccula
Archbishop Martin-Léonard Bakole wa Ilunga †
Archbishop of Luluabourg

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jean Émile André Marie Maury † (1958)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Pierre-Marie Paul Cardinal Gerlier † (1929)
Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)
Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois † (1901)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop Marie-Prosper-Adolphe de Bonfils † (1898)
Bishop of Le Mans
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

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WikiData: Q1534354

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 27 Jul 2005
d: Annuario Pontificio Variazioni, Year 2020, Number 12

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