Emile Biayenda (Cardinal)

Emile Cardinal Biayenda (born 1927 in Mpongala , Republic of the Congo , † March 23, 1977 in Brazzaville ) was Archbishop of Brazzaville .

Life

After studying Catholic theology in Brazzaville and Lyon, Emile Biayenda received the sacrament of ordination on October 26, 1958 from the Archbishop of Brazzaville, Michel-Jules-Joseph-Marie Bernard CSSp . He was a parish chaplain from 1959 to 1965 and 1969 to 1970. From 1965 to 1969 he was Episcopal Vicar of the Archdiocese of Brazzaville.

Pope Paul VI appointed him titular archbishop of Garba in 1970 and appointed him coadjutor archbishop in Brazzaville. The episcopal ordination donated to him on May 17, 1970 Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli , secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Mario Tagliaferri , Apostolic Delegate in the Congo, and the Bishop of Orléans , Guy-Marie Riobé . In 1971 he was appointed Archbishop of Brazzaville.

Émile biayenda was on March 5, 1973 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Marco in Agro Laurentino in the College of Cardinals received.

He fell victim to a tribal dispute and was murdered on March 23, 1977, after being abducted the day before. His remains were in the cathedral buried Brazzaville. In March 1995, the process of beatification began, during which Cardinal Biayenda was proclaimed Venerable Servant of God .

literature

• Emile Cardinal Biayenda , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/1977 of May 30, 1977, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Biayenda, Emile. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed June 28, 2016.
• Entry on Emile Biayenda on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Théophile Mbemba	Archbishop of Brazzaville 1971–1977	Barthélémy Batantu