Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Tadeusz Zbigniew Kusy, OFM | |
Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Metropolis: | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangui |
Diocese: | Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaga-Bandoro |
Term Start: | 27 September 2015 |
Term End: | 31 March 2024 |
Predecessor: | Albert Vanbuel, S.D.B. |
Successor: | Vacant |
Ordination: | 15 April 1976 |
Ordained By: | Herbert Bednorz |
Consecration: | 15 August 2014 |
Consecrated By: | Dieudonné Nzapalainga C.S.Sp. |
Birth Name: | Tadeusz Kusy |
Birth Date: | 2 December 1951 |
Birth Place: | Cieszyn, Poland |
Death Place: | Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic |
Nationality: | Polish |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Alma Mater: | St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Theological Seminary in Katowice |
Motto: | Z Tobą i dla Ciebe, Jezu! (Polish): With you and for you, Jesus! |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Tadeusz Kusy OFM.jpg |
Tadeusz Kusy | |
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Tadeusz Zbigniew Kusy, O.F.M. (2 December 1951 – 31 March 2024) was a Polish Franciscan missionary and bishop of Kaga-Bandoro in the Central African Republic.
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 15 April 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 the 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 15 August from Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, with bishop of Kaga-Bandoro, Albert Vanbuel, and bishop emeritus of Kole in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Stanislas Lukumwena Lumbala, serving as co-consecrators. On 27 September 2015, he was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaga-Bandoro.[3]
Kusy died on Easter Sunday, 31 March 2024, at the age of 72.[4]