Archbishop Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa

Archbishop of Lubumbashi

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Aug 1937		Born	Kalasa
14 Aug 1963	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Elisabethville, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
25 Apr 1974	36.7	Appointed	Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
24 Aug 1974	37.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
22 May 1998	60.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Victor Petrus Keuppens, O.F.M. †
Bishop Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa (1974)
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula † (1959)
Archbishop Félix Scalais, C.I.C.M. † (1953)
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gaston Kashala Ruwezi, S.D.B.

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