Zacarias Kamwenho

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Zacarias Kamwenho

Zacarias Kamwenho (born September 5, 1934 in Chimbundo, Huambo , Angola ) is an Angolan archbishop and peace activist .

Life

Zacarias Kamwenho, who comes from the Ovimbundu people and attended mission schools and the seminary in Huambo , received the sacrament of priestly ordination on July 9, 1961 .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on August 26, 1974 auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Luanda and titular bishop of Tabla . The bishop of Nova Lisboa , Américo Henriques , donated him episcopal ordination on November 23 of the same year. Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Luanda, Manuel Nunes Gabriel , and the Bishop of Malanje , Eduardo André Muaca .

On August 10, 1975, Kamwenho was appointed the first bishop of the diocese of Ngunza, established on the same date and renamed Novo Redondo two years later .

Pope John Paul II appointed him coadjutor archbishop of Lubango on March 3, 1995 . With the resignation of Manuel Franklin da Costa on January 15, 1997, he succeeded him as Archbishop of Lubango.

In 2001 he acted as a mediator in the Angolan civil war and chaired the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST) and the Ecumenical Committee for Peace in Angola (COIEPA), which was founded in April 2000. It brings together the Catholic CEAST, the Angolan Evangelical Alliance (AEA) and the Council of Christian Churches in Angola (CICA).

On September 5, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. Kamwenho's age-related retirement. From November 2010 to July 2011 he was Apostolic Administrator of the Namibe Diocese .

He is a co-laureate of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought , awarded by the European Parliament in 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC: Signs of Peace in Angola (English)
  2. ↑ Dom Zacarias Kamwenho new apostolic administrator in Namibe (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Sakharov Prize 2001 (PDF; 613 kB), page 12 (English)

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predecessor Office successor
Manuel Franklin da Costa Archbishop of Lubango
1997–2009 		Gabriel Mbilingi
--- Bishop of Ngunza / Novo Redondo
1975–1995 		Benedito Roberto CSSp
personal data
SURNAME Kamwenho, zacarias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Angolan archbishop and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chimbundo, Huambo , Angola