Camille Lembi Zaneli

Camille Lembi Zaneli ( born April 2, 1950 in Zongo, † July 8th, 2011 at Kisangani ) was Congolese clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Isangi.

Life

Camille Lembi Zaneli studied philosophy at the Major Seminary of Kabwe (Zambia ) and Kananga (DRC ) and Theology in Kinshasa and received on September 30, 1979, the ordination. He worked for the diocese Lisala, including teachers and educators of the Minor Seminary of Lisala (1979-1980), Rector of the Minor Seminary in Lisala (1980-1990) and rector of the diocesan house Lisala in Kinshasa ( 1990-1991). 1999 Lembi Zaneli was a priest in the Archdiocese of Saint- Pierre and Fort-de -France in Martinique.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 2 June 2000 as Bishop of Isangi. The Archbishop of Kisangani, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, donated to him on 26 November 2000, the episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators Louis Nkinga Bondala CICM, Bishop of Lisala, and Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke, Bishop of Lolo.

He died in a crash of a Boeing 727 private airline Hewa Bora Airways on a flight from the capital Kinshasa to Kisangani, the problems had shortly before landing due to heavy rains.