Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi

Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi C.I.C.M. ( Born April 12, 1932 in Bwamanda / Yakamba, Equateur province; † 9 September 2011 in Kinshasa) was a Congolese religious clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Molegbe.

Life

Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, son of a family of Bas -Congo and Angola, studied at the Seminary of Kabwe, occurred on 8 September in 1958 at the Congregation of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Belgian be shy. After studying sociology in Rome received on August 2, 1964 in Rome, the priest. In 1969 he returned to Kinshasa and was responsible for youth ministry in the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, at the same time chaplain of the parish of Saint Pierre de Kasavubu. As pastor of St. Alphonse de Matete he founded the movement " Initiation traditionnal Négro - Africaine " (Eng.: Introduction to the tradition of black Africans ), from the 1974 Catholic Youth Movement Bilenge ya Mwinda entstand.1975 he founded the religious congregation Soeurs de sainte Thérèse de l' Enfant Jésus in Basankusu.

Pope Paul VI. appointed Ignace Matondo on November 18, 1974 Bishop of Basankusu. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Joseph -Albert Maloula, on April 13th of the next year; Were co-consecrators Pierre Wijnants MSC, Archbishop of Mbandaka - Bikoro, and Louis Nganga a Ndzando, Bishop of Lisala. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 27 June 1998 on the Bishop of Molegbe.

On 23 May 2007, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.