Jérôme Gapangwa Nteziryayo
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Jérôme Gapangwa Nteziryayo | |
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Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Diocese | Diocese of Uvira |
Appointed | 1 July 1985 |
Installed | 20 October 1985 |
Term ended | 10 June 2002 |
Orders | |
Ordination | 20 August 1972 by Bishop , S.X. |
Consecration | 20 October 1985 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 January 1942 , Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Jérôme Gapangwa Nteziryayo (born 1 January 1942) is a Congolese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Uvira from 1985 to 2002.
Biography[]
Nteziryayo was born in , Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 1 January 1942.[1] He was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Uvira on 20 August 1972 by Bishop , S.X.[1]
Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Uvira on 1 July 1985.[1] He was consecrated bishop on 20 October 1985, with Archbishop , Archbishop of Bukavu, serving as principal consecrator, and Bishop Léonard Dhejju, Bishop of Bunia, and Bishop , Bishop of Goma, serving as co-consecrators.[1]
On 10 June 2002, Nteziryayo resigned from his position as bishop.[1]
On 5 August 2006, concelebrated Mass at the International Youth Festival in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was one of two bishops at the festival.[2]
Episcopal lineage[]
- Cardinal Scipione Rebiba
- Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santorio (1566)
- Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio, O.P. (1586)
- Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale (1604)
- Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (1621)
- Cardinal Luigi Caetani (1622)
- Cardinal Ulderico Carpegna (1630)
- Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1666)
- Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
- Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
- Pope Clement XIII (1743)
- Cardinal Bernardino Giraud (1767)
- Cardinal Alessandro Mattei (1777)
- Cardinal Pietro Francesco Galleffi (1819)
- Cardinal Filippo de Angelis (1826)
- Cardinal Amilcare Malagola (1876)
- Cardinal Giovanni Tacci Porcelli (1895)
- Pope John XXIII (1925)
- Bishop (1960)
- Archbishop (1966)
- Bishop Jérôme Gapangwa Nteziryayo (1985)
References[]
- ^ a b c d e Cheney, David M. "Bishop Jérôme Gapangwa Nteziryayo [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ "Medjugorje | News". www.medjugorje.hr. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- 1942 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Roman Catholic bishops of Uvira
- 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people