Paul Francis Duffy

Paul Francis Duffy, OMI ( born July 25, 1932 in Norwood, Massachusetts, † August 23 2011 in San Antonio, Texas) was an American clergyman and religious Roman Catholic Bishop of Mongu.

Life

Paul Francis Duffy joined after attending school in Boston in 1952 the Congregation of the Oblates in and received on December 22, 1962 in San Antonio, the ordination of Bishop Stephen A. Levin. Since 1984 he worked at the invitation of the National Episcopal Conference in Zambia, including as pastor in Lukulu and Kalabo.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 14 June 1997 to the Bishop of Mongu. The Apostolic Pro- Nuncio to Malawi and Apostolic Nuncio in Zambia, Giuseppe Leanza, donated to him on 31 August 1997, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Raymond Mpezele, Bishop of Livingstone, and Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Archbishop of Lusaka. He was a member of the Association of Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa.

Duffy was active for more than 26 different tribes in Zambia's Western Province, one of the poorest tracts of land around the world, as its mouthpiece he was. In 2010 he was selected for its unique appeals victims of public accusations.

On 15 February 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. be age-related resignation at that Duffy had made ​​after the completion of his 75th birthday in 2007. At this time he was the oldest acting bishop of the whole of Africa. He died as a result of leukemia. The President of Zambia Rupiah Banda thanked in an obituary for the active role that would have taken Duffy in society.