Ernest Kombo (March 27, 1941 – October 22, 2008) was a

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religious official born in 1941 in

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. He was ordained a Catholic priest for the

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(S.J.) on July 6, 1973. On December 5, 1983, he was appointed the third bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkayi and he was consecrated bishop on January 6, 1984 by

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assisted by Cardinals

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and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, inside

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. Following the appointment of Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha as Bishop of Pointe-Noire, Bishop Kombo was transferred to the Diocese of Owando on July 7, 1990 as the second bishop of that diocese from the Republic of the Congo. He was very direct in his manner. From 1991 to 1992, he was elected to head Congo's interim legislature, the Conseil Superieur de la Republique (CRS). In October 1994, at the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, at the

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, Bishop Kombo proposed that some Roman Catholic

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s be made members of the

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, because of their mission to the Roman Catholic Church. Msgr. Kombo died in

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, at the

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Hospital of stomach cancer, on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, aged 67, where he was recovering from his poor health. According to his will, his body was repatriated to his native Congo for interment inside the small Catholic Cemetery adjoining the Metropolitan Cathedral Sacre-Coeur of Brazzaville.

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