Tadeusz Kusy

Most Reverend
Tadeusz Zbigniew Kusy, OFM
bishop of Kaga-Bandoro
Church Roman Catholic Church
Diocese Kaga-Bandoro
Installed 27 September 2015
Predecessor Albert Vanbuel, S.D.B.
Orders
Ordination 15 April 1976
Consecration 15 August 2014
by Dieudonné Nzapalainga C.S.Sp.
Personal details
Birth name Tadeusz Kusy
Born (1951-12-02) 2 December 1951
Cieszyn, Poland
Nationality Polish
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Alma mater St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Theological Seminary in Katowice
Motto Tecum et tibi, Jesu! (English): With you and for you, Jesus!
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Tadeusz Zbigniew Kusy, O.F.M. (born 2 December 1951) is a Polish Franciscan missionary and bishop of Kaga-Bandoro in the Central African Republic.

Life

Born in Cieszyn, Kusy became a member of the Franciscan Order in Katowice in 1968. He made his perpetual vows in 1974, and was ordained to the priesthood on April 15, 1976.[1] After working in parish in Katowice Panewniki, he became a missionary in Zaire in 1979. In the years 1986-1989 he studied at the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions in Paris, France. He returned to Africa to Central African Republic in 1986. Father Kusy was an educator of young brothers in Bimbo in the Archdiocese of Bangui. He chaired the commission for the consecrated life, and was a member of the Archbishop's college of consultors.[2]

On 31 May 2014, Pope Francis appointed him bishop coadjutor of Kaga-Bandoro. Father Kusy received his episcopal consecration on the following August 15 from Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, with bishop of Kaga-Bandoro, Albert Vanbuel, and bishop emeritus of Kole in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Stanislas Lukumwena Lumbala, serving as co-consecrators. On 27 September 2015 was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaga-Bandoro.[3]

His motto is "Tecum et tibi, Jesu!".

References

  1. Prymicje biskupa z Cieszyna, OX.PL, 4 September 2014 (in Polish)
  2. Schematismus Ordinis Fratrum Minorum. Roma: Curia Generalis, 2009, p. 339-340.
  3. Rinuncia e successione del Vescovo di Kaga-Bandoro (Repubblica Centrafricana), Bollettino, 27 September 2015 (in Italian)

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