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DRC: Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya – a life of firsts.
Paul Samasumo – Vatican City.
The passing away of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya was announced Sunday evening by his successor, the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo.
“I am deeply saddened to announce to the Catholic community and to all people of goodwill the death of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo, this Sunday 11 July, in Versailles, France,” Cardinal Ambongo said in a tweet.
A distinguished Biblical Scholar
Laurent Monsengwo was born on 7 October 1939 in what was then Belgian Congo.
Cardinal laurent monsengwo biography of albert
He was ordained a priest in December 1963. Father Monsengwo was the first African to obtain a doctorate, in 1970, from Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute (also known as Biblicum). It is a prestigious research and postgraduate teaching institution specialised in biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies.
First appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Inongo Diocese in February 1980, Monsengwo was ordained Bishop on 4 May 1980 b