Archbishop Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Aug 1937		Born
14 Aug 1963	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Elisabethville, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
25 Apr 1974	36.6	Appointed	Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
24 Aug 1974	36.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
22 May 1998	60.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1 Dec 2010	73.2	Resigned	Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
31 Dec 2020	83.3	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa
Archbishop Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa
(born 29 Aug 1937, died 31 Dec 2020)
Archbishop Emeritus of Lubumbashi

Event Place
Birth Place Kalasa
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Kolwezi, Diocese of Kolwezi
Death Place Lubumbashi, Archdiocese of Lubumbashi

a priest for 57.3 years
a bishop for 46.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula †
Archbishop of Kinshasa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Victor Petrus Keuppens, O.F.M. †
Vicar Apostolic of Lulua
Bishop Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku †
Titular Bishop of Scampa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Deacon:
Bishop Jean-Marie Vianney Musul Masas (2008)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gaston Kashala Ruwezi, S.D.B. (2004)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Kalasa
Ordained Bishop	Open Air, Kolwezi, Diocese of Kolwezi
Death Place	Lubumbashi, Archdiocese of Lubumbashi

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1430017

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 1 Dec 2010
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 113, Additions/Corrections (front)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 25, Number 1,435
d: CB, 2 Jan 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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