Archbishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga Mbayo, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jul 1942		Born
20 Feb 1971	28.5	Solemn Vows	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
16 Sep 1972	30.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
6 Oct 1992	50.1	Appointed	Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
31 Jan 1993	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
10 Jun 2002	59.8	Appointed	Bishop of Uvira, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
31 Jul 2008	66.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1 Dec 2010	68.3	Succeeded	Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
31 Mar 2021	78.6	Died	Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Jean-Pierre Tafunga Mbayo
Archbishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga Mbayo S.D.B.
(born 25 Jul 1942, died 31 Mar 2021)
Archbishop of Lubumbashi

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

Event Place
Birth Place Panda-Likasi, Vicariate Apostolic of Katanga
Ordained Bishop Sainte Croix, Cathedral, Kasenga, Diocese of Kilwa-Kasenga
Death Place Pretoria, Archdiocese of Pretoria, South Africa

a priest for 48.5 years
a bishop for 28.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Eugène Kabanga Songasonga †
Archbishop of Lubumbashi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Faustin Ngabu †
Bishop of Goma
Bishop Dominique Kimpinde Amando †
Bishop of Kalemie-Kirungu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Eugène Kabanga Songasonga † (1967)
Archbishop of Lubumbashi
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Jean-Marie Vianney Musul Masas (2009)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jean-Christophore Amade Aloma, M. Afr. (2015)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gaston Kashala Ruwezi, S.D.B. (2004)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Panda-Likasi, Vicariate Apostolic of Katanga
Ordained Bishop	Sainte Croix, Cathedral, Kasenga, Diocese of Kilwa-Kasenga
Death Place	Pretoria, Archdiocese of Pretoria, South Africa

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1685259

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 31 Jul 2008
s: Bollettino, 1 Dec 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 135, Number 12,107
d: CB, 31 Mar 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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