Former Bishop of the Diocese of Owando, Monsignor Ernest Kombo SJ., was born in Pointe-Noire, Congo, on March 27, 1941, and was ordained to the priesthood through the Society of Jesus at 32 years of age, on July 8, 1973.
Aged 42, Kombo was appointed the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Nkayi, receiving his episcopal consecration from Pope John Paul II, assisted by Cardinals Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, inside Saint Peter's Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, on January 6, 1984.
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.
In October 1994, at the Synod of Bishops held at the Vatican, Bishop Kombo proposed that some Roman Catholic nuns must be named as members of the College of Cardinals, because of their mission to the Roman Catholic Church.
Chairman of Congo's National Conference, which opened up the way to multiparty system in the named Country in 1991 and led to the High Council of the Republic - the Parliament of Transition. He furthermore led the Episcopal Conference of Congo, obtaining a new reputation by denouncing corruption, bad governance and the distribution of oil revenues, first resource of the country.
Msgr. Kombo died in Paris, France, at the Val de Grâce Hospital of stomach cancer, on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, aged 67, where he was recovered because of his poor health. According to his will, his body was repatriated to his native Congo for interment inside the small cemetery adjoining the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brazzaville.
Aged 42, Kombo was appointed the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Nkayi, receiving his episcopal consecration from Pope John Paul II, assisted by Cardinals Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, inside Saint Peter's Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, on January 6, 1984.
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.
In October 1994, at the Synod of Bishops held at the Vatican, Bishop Kombo proposed that some Roman Catholic nuns must be named as members of the College of Cardinals, because of their mission to the Roman Catholic Church.
Chairman of Congo's National Conference, which opened up the way to multiparty system in the named Country in 1991 and led to the High Council of the Republic - the Parliament of Transition. He furthermore led the Episcopal Conference of Congo, obtaining a new reputation by denouncing corruption, bad governance and the distribution of oil revenues, first resource of the country.
Msgr. Kombo died in Paris, France, at the Val de Grâce Hospital of stomach cancer, on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, aged 67, where he was recovered because of his poor health. According to his will, his body was repatriated to his native Congo for interment inside the small cemetery adjoining the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brazzaville.
Former Bishop of the Diocese of Owando, Monsignor Ernest Kombo SJ., was born in Pointe-Noire, Congo, on March 27, 1941, and was ordained to the priesthood through the Society of Jesus at 32 years of age, on July 8, 1973.
Aged 42, Kombo was appointed the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Nkayi, receiving his episcopal consecration from Pope John Paul II, assisted by Cardinals Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, inside Saint Peter's Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, on January 6, 1984.
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.
In October 1994, at the Synod of Bishops held at the Vatican, Bishop Kombo proposed that some Roman Catholic nuns must be named as members of the College of Cardinals, because of their mission to the Roman Catholic Church.
Chairman of Congo's National Conference, which opened up the way to multiparty system in the named Country in 1991 and led to the High Council of the Republic - the Parliament of Transition. He furthermore led the Episcopal Conference of Congo, obtaining a new reputation by denouncing corruption, bad governance and the distribution of oil revenues, first resource of the country.
Msgr. Kombo died in Paris, France, at the Val de Grâce Hospital of stomach cancer, on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, aged 67, where he was recovered because of his poor health. According to his will, his body was repatriated to his native Congo for interment inside the small cemetery adjoining the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brazzaville.
Aged 42, Kombo was appointed the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Nkayi, receiving his episcopal consecration from Pope John Paul II, assisted by Cardinals Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, inside Saint Peter's Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, on January 6, 1984.
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.
In October 1994, at the Synod of Bishops held at the Vatican, Bishop Kombo proposed that some Roman Catholic nuns must be named as members of the College of Cardinals, because of their mission to the Roman Catholic Church.
Chairman of Congo's National Conference, which opened up the way to multiparty system in the named Country in 1991 and led to the High Council of the Republic - the Parliament of Transition. He furthermore led the Episcopal Conference of Congo, obtaining a new reputation by denouncing corruption, bad governance and the distribution of oil revenues, first resource of the country.
Msgr. Kombo died in Paris, France, at the Val de Grâce Hospital of stomach cancer, on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, aged 67, where he was recovered because of his poor health. According to his will, his body was repatriated to his native Congo for interment inside the small cemetery adjoining the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brazzaville.
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