Zambian Roman Catholics - Emmanuel Milingo, Emmanuel Kasonde, Adrian Mung'andu (Paperback)

Chapters: Emmanuel Milingo, Emmanuel Kasonde, Adrian Mung'andu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) was a former Roman Catholic archbishop from Zambia. In 1969, when Milingo was only 39, Pope Paul VI consecrated him as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka. In 1983 he was asked to step down from his position as Archbishop of Lusaka for his performance of exorcisms and faith healing practices unapproved by Church authorities. In 2001, when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, despite the prohibition on marriage for ordained priests. On 24 September 2006 Milingo ordained four men as bishops without a papal mandate. All four men were married at the time of their ordination. For this act (illegal episcopal consecrations have occurred before, as in the case with Marcel Lefebvre), the Holy See declared Milingo excommunicated. Also, on December 11, 2006, in Washington, the archbishop ordained four married men as priests. He established the Married Priests Now organisation to care for and to reintegrate into the church's ministry many of the estimated up to 110,000 Roman Catholic priests worldwide who had left the formal ministry and been married. On December 17, 2009, the Holy See announced that Milingo had been reduced to the lay state, making unlawful the participation by the faithful in any future celebrations by him. Milingo was educated in St Mary's Presbyterial School in Chipata and attended the Kasina Seminary and Kachebere Seminary. He was ordained a priest in 1958. He was the parish priest in Chipata from 1963 to 1966 and founded the Zambia Helpers' Society during this time. He was the secretary of Mass Media at the Zambia Episcopal Confe...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=86424