Emmanuel Milingo | |||||||||||||||||
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church | ||||||||||||||||
| Archdiocese | Lusaka | ||||||||||||||||
| In office | 1969 to 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Adam Kozłowiecki | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Adrian Mung'andu | ||||||||||||||||
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| Ordination | August 31, 1958 | ||||||||||||||||
| Consecration | August 1, 1969 by Pope Paul VI | ||||||||||||||||
| Laicized | December 17, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 13, 1930 | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Maria Sung (m. 2001) | ||||||||||||||||
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Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) is an excommunicated former Roman Catholic archbishop from Zambia. He was ordained in 1958; in 1969, aged 39, Milingo was consecrated by Pope Paul VI as the bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka.[1] In 1983, he stepped down from his position as Archbishop of Lusaka after criticism for exorcism and faith healing practices that were not approved by church authorities.[2] 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. In July 2006, he established Married Priests Now!, an advocacy organization to promote the acceptance of married priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
On September 24, 2006, Milingo consecrated four men as bishops (including American George Augustus Stallings Jr., who had established an independent denomination) without a papal mandate.[3] Through that act alone, Milingo had incurred a latae sententiae excommunication, which was stated by the Holy See Press Office two days later. On December 17, 2009, the Holy See Press Office announced that Milingo had been reduced to the lay state, making him no longer a member of the Catholic clergy.[4] Mlingo retired from ministry in his movement for married priests in March 2013, appointing Peter Paul Brennan to take his place.[5]
- ^ "(Layman) Emmanuel Milingo". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ Marthinus L. Daneel (2008). "Coping with Wizardry in Zimbabwe in African Initiated Churches (AICs)". In Van Doorn-Harder, Nelly; Minnema, Lourens (eds.). Coping with evil in religion and culture: case studies. Rodopi. p. 53. ISBN 978-90-420-2337-6.
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