Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu

Bishop Emeritus of Kinkala, Congo

Motto: Super Omnia, Caritas

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jul 1942		Born
31 Dec 1967	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
16 Oct 2001	59.2	Appointed	Bishop of Kinkala, Congo
6 Jan 2002	59.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kinkala, Congo
5 Mar 2020	77.6	Retired	Bishop of Kinkala, Congo
30 May 2025	82.8	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Nkayi, Congo
15 Feb 2026	83.5	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Nkayi, Congo

MicroData Summary
Louis Portella Mbuyu
Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu
(born 28 Jul 1942)
Bishop Emeritus of Kinkala

Ad Limina - October 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Pointe-Noire, Vicariate Apostolic of Loango
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kinkala.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leonardo Sandri
Titular Archbishop of Aemona
Archbishop Robert Sarah
Archbishop Emeritus of Conakry {Konakry}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga (2020)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Yves Marie Monot, C.S.Sp. (2008)
Archbishop Miguel Ángel Olaverri Arroniz, S.D.B. (2013)
Archbishop Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou (2013)
Bishop Euzébius Chinekezy Ogbonna Managwu (2016)
Archbishop Abel Liluala (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1495349

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 165, Number 14,099
r: Bollettino, 5 Mar 2020
aadm: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, Volume 117, Page 877

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