Gabriel Mbilingi

Gabriel Mbilingi CSSp ( born January 17, 1958 in Bândua, Bié, Angola ) is an Angolan cleric and Christian theologian. He is a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lubango in Angola. Since 20 November 2009 he has been Chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé, Ceast.

Life

Gabriel Mbilingi attended primary school at the Catholic Mission in 1970 and entered the minor seminary of the Holy Ghost Fathers in Huambo one. After studying philosophy at the diocesan indians Christ the King Seminary in Huambo he entered on April 10, 1980, the Congregation of the Holy Ghost Fathers (lat. Congregation Sancti Spiritus; CSSp ) at. On April 9, 1983, he passed the profession and received on 26 February 1984, the ordination. From 1988 to 1992 he studied at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome.

On 15 October 1999 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Lwena. On 6 January 2000, Pope John Paul II in St. Peter gave himself a bishop; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Marcello Zago OMI ​​. A day later, he followed after the resignation of his predecessor José Próspero because Ascensão Puaty as Bishop of Lwena in the province of Huambo. 2006 was made by Pope Benedict XVI. the appointment as Koadjutorerzbischof of the Archdiocese of Lubango.

Mbilingi was elected to the General Assembly of the Bishops' Conference for Southern Africa ( IMBISA ) in Luanda, the Angolan capital, the new president of the Bishops of Southern Africa on July 22, 2007. With the resignation of Archbishop Zacarias Kamwenho on 6 September 2009, he was appointed as the new Archbishop of Lubango. On 29 June 2010 he received as the new Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lubango in St. Peter the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI ..