Sebastien Kenda Ntumba
Sebastien Kenda Ntumba is a Congolese Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tshilomba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since June 2022. From 9 August 1987 until then he was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Luiza.
Background and education
He was born on 11 June 1960 in Tshiona, Diocese of Luiza, Kasaï-Central, in the DR Congo. He studied at the Kamponde Minor Seminary, graduating with a diploma in Literary Humanities in 1980. He then entered the Saint François Xavier Major Seminary in Mbuji-Mayi, where he studied philosophy from 1980 to 1983. He then earned a Bachelor's degree in theology from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome and, graduated from the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily in Palermo, with a licentiate in theology.Priest
He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Luiza on 8 August 1987. He was: formator at the Kamponde Minor Seminary from 1987 until 1990;parish priest of Saint Jean in Yangala and Sainte Marie Alacoque in Winkon; dean and head of the diocesan office for pastoral ministry from 1990 until 2003; Fidei donum priest in the Diocese of Agrigento from 2003 until 2016; administrator of the parish of the Transfiguration in the Villaggio Giordano in Palma di Montechiaro from 2003 to 2012; vicar forane from 2008 to 2012; administrator of the parish of Maria Santissima della Catena in Italy from 2012 to 2013; administrator of the parish of San Nicola alle Fontanelle in Agrigento from 2014 to 2016; a lecturer in the diocesan seminary of Agrigento from 2016 to 2017; and priest of Saint Anthony of Padua in Kalomba from 2017 to 2022.