George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu (born 4 February 1960) is a
Zambian Catholic prelate who serves as
Bishop of Chipata. He was appointed by
John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005.
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on 23 December 2002.
Early life and education
Lungu was born on 4 February 1960 at ''Zumaire'', in the Diocese of Chipata in the
Eastern Province of Zambia.
Priesthood
He was ordained a priest on 29 August 1985 at
Chipata
Chipata is a city and administrative centre of the Eastern Province of Zambia and Chipata District. It was declared the 5th city of the country, after Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe and Livingstone, by President Edgar Lungu on 24 February 2017. The cit ...
. He served as a priest in the Diocese of Chipata, until 23 December 2002.
Episcopal career
He was appointed as the Bishop of Chipata by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005.
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, on 23 December 2002 and was installed there on 23 February 2003. He was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop
Orlando Antonini, Titular Archbishop of Formiae and Papal Nuncio to Zambia, assisted by
Medardo Joseph Mazombwe
Medardo Joseph Mazombwe (24 September 1931 – 29 August 2013) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Zambia's first indigenous cardinal.
He was the former archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka (1996–2006) and Bish ...
, Archbishop of Lusaka, and Bishop
Telesphore George Mpundu, Bishop of Mpika.
On 12 April 2018, the
Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops, known before 2016 as the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) was established in 1965. The statutes of the Conference were approved by the Holy See on April 2, 1984.
The ZCCB is a member of the Association of ...
(ZCCB), elected him as president of their conference. He succeeded Telesphore Mpundu, the Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka Archdiocese.
As president of the ZCCB, he was part of the organizers of a ''Peacebuilding Workshop'' in the capital city of Lusaka, to discuss and propose solutions to the then deteriorating national economic, social and security environment in the country in November 2020.
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Zambia
Succession table
References
External links
Zambia: Chipata- a privileged Diocese with an Auxiliary BishopIntervention of Mons. George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu, Bishop of Chipata, Zambia
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1960 births
Living people
Zambian Roman Catholic bishops
People from Chipata District
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Zambia
Roman Catholic bishops of Chipata
Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II