Placidus Nkalanga

Placidus Gervase Nkalanga OSB ( born June 19, 1919 in Ruti, Tanzania) is a retired bishop of Bukoba.

Life

Placidus Nkalanga was consecrated on 15 July 1950 to the Benedictine priests. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bukoba and Titular Bishop of Balbura on 18 April 1961. Pope John XXIII. consecrated him on 21 May of the same year to the bishop; Fulton John Sheen were co-consecrators, Auxiliary Bishop of New York and Edoardo MCCJ Mason, Vicar Apostolic of El Obeid. He entered on March 6, 1969, the successor of Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, who was Archbishop of Dar -es- Salaam, as Bishop of Bukoba on.

On November 26, 1973, Pope Paul VI. his resignation.