Joseph Sak
Joseph Sak SDB (born January 16, 1875 in Hechtel-Eksel , Belgium , † March 15, 1946 in Élisabethville ) was a Belgian religious priest and Roman Catholic bishop .
Life
He attended the seminary of Saint-Roch near Ferrières in Belgium and entered the novitiate of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Liège in 1895 . After he had taken his religious vows on October 3, 1896 and completed his philosophical and theological studies, he was ordained a priest on September 23, 1899 . From 1901 to 1907 he worked as a teacher and prefect in the Berchmans Institute in Liège, then in 1907/08 as a teacher in Hechtel and from 1908 to 1911 as prefect in Verviers .
In 1911 he was appointed by the religious superiors to head a mission expedition to the Belgian Congo , where he first founded a school and a college in Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi ).
On July 14, 1924 he was appointed by Pope Pius XI. appointed Prefect of Luapula Superiore in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo . On November 14, 1939, Pope Pius XII appointed him . as Apostolic Vicar of Sakania , associated with the titular diocese of Scilium . He was ordained bishop on April 17, 1940 by Bishop Camille Valentin Stappers OFM and co - consecrator Jean-Félix de Hemptinne OSB.
Web links
- Entry on Joseph Sak on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on November 2, 2018.
- Biography on colledonbosco.it ( Memento from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)
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| SURNAME | Sak, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sak, Joseph SDB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian religious priest and Roman Catholic bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hechtel-Eksel , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1946 |
| Place of death | Lubumbashi |