|
Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi
Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae, C.I.C.M. (; 3 December 1930, Belgian Congo – 6 January 2007, Leuven, Belgium) was Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal and Archdiocese of Kinshasa, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was the DRC's foremost Catholic prelate from 1991 until his death in 2007. Biography Educated by Catholic Missionary, missionaries, Frédéric Etsou joined the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae, CICM missionaries in 1959. He was ordained as a priest on 13 July 1958, and assigned to the city of Kinshasa, Leopoldville. He later studied sociology and theology in France and Belgium before returning to Congo in the late 1960s. Etsou became Archbishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro on 11 November 1977, and Archbishop of Archdiocese of Kinshasa, Kinshasa in 1990. He was proclaimed a Cardinal-Priest of S. Lucia a Piazza d'Armi by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1991, succeeding the first Zairean Cardinal, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Eminence
His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em. or H.E. or HE) is a style of reference for high nobility, still in use in various religious contexts. Catholicism The style remains in use as the official style or standard form of address in reference to a cardinal of the Catholic Church, reflecting his status as a Prince of the Church. A longer, and more formal, title is "His (or Your when addressing the cardinal directly) Most Reverend Eminence". Patriarchs of Eastern Catholic Churches who are also cardinals may be addressed as "His Eminence" or by the style particular to Catholic patriarchs, His Beatitude. When the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the head of state of their sovereign territorial state comprising the island of Malta until 1797, who had already been made a Reichsfürst (i.e., prince of the Holy Roman Empire) in 1607, became (in terms of honorary order of precedence, not in the actual church hierarchy of ordained ministers) the most senior official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |