Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga

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Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga
Bishop
Church	Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kasama
See	Roman Catholic Diocese of Mansa
Appointed	30 November 2013
Predecessor	Andrew Aaron Chisha
Successor	Incumbent
Orders
Ordination	27 June 1999
Consecration	1 February 2014 by Ignatius Chama
Rank	Bishop
Personal details
Born	Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga (1971-05-16) May 16, 1971 (age 53) Kamuchanga Village, Zambia

Styles of Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga

Reference style	His Grace The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Grace
Religious style	Bishop

Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga (born 16 May 1971) is a Zambian Catholic prelate who is the Bishop of the Diocese of Mansa, in Zambia. He was appointed Bishop of Mansa on 30 November 2013 by Pope Francis. He was consecrated bishop on February 2014.

Background and education

He was born on 16 May 1971 in Kamuchanga, Mufulira District, in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. He completed his secondary school at the minor seminary of Ndola Diocese in 1990. He then joined the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. Upon completion of training as a Franciscan student, he studied philosophy and Theology. He graduated with a Doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy in 2006.

Priesthood

He professed as Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual, in 1992. He took the Perpetual Vows of that religious Order in 1998. On 27 June 1999, he was ordained a priest in Ndola.

While he was priest he held the following offices, among other responsibilities:

Parish priest in various parishes in the Diocese of Ndola
Director of Formation for the Franciscans, responsible for the Franciscans in Zambia
Senior Lecturer of Psychology at St. Bonaventure College, Lusaka.

As bishop

On 30 November 2013 Pope Francis appointed Father Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga, OFM Conv. as the Bishop of Mansa, Zambia. He was consecrated bishop and installed on 1 February 2014 at the Don Bosco Centre in Mansa, Zambia. The Principal Consecrator was Archbishop Ignatius Chama, Archbishop of Kasama, assisted by Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, OFM Conv. Titular Bishop of Meta and Bishop George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu, Bishop of Chipata.