Bishop Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Apr 1937		Born
15 Aug 1969	32.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lisala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
17 Mar 1983	45.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
17 Mar 1983	45.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Baliana
10 Jul 1983	46.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Baliana
28 Aug 1987	50.3	Appointed	Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
29 Jan 2015	77.8	Retired	Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
26 Nov 2025	88.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary
Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke
Bishop Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke
(born 8 Apr 1937, died 26 Nov 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Lolo

Ad Limina - January 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Gamangwa, Vicariate Apostolic of Lisala
Ordained Priest St. André, Church, Bumba, Vicariate Apostolic of Lisala
Ordained Bishop St. John the Baptist, Cathedral, Lolo, Diocese of Lolo
Death Place St. Joseph, Hospital, Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa

a priest for 56.2 years
a bishop for 42.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M. †
Archbishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph Ignace Waterschoot, O. Praem. †
Bishop of Lolo
Bishop Louis Nganga a Ndzando †
Bishop of Lisala

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M. † (1976)
Archbishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula † (1959)
Archbishop of Kinshasa
Bishop Félix Scalais, C.I.C.M. † (1953)
Titular Bishop of Casius
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Camille Lembi Zaneli (Zanelli) † (2000)
Bishop Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap. (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Gamangwa, Vicariate Apostolic of Lisala
Ordained Priest	St. André, Church, Bumba, Vicariate Apostolic of Lisala
Ordained Bishop	St. John the Baptist, Cathedral, Lolo, Diocese of Lolo
Death Place	St. Joseph, Hospital, Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1405587

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 188, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 29 Jan 2015
by: CB, 29 Jan 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 81, Number 6,638
d: CB, 26 Nov 2025
opd/loc: CB, 30 Nov 2025

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