Donatien Bafuidinsoni

Donatien Bafuidinsoni Maloko-Mana S.J. (born 11 December 1962) is a Congolese Catholic prelate who is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Inongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 31 March 2018. Before that, from 31 March 2015 until 31 March 2018, he was auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa. He was appointed bishop on 31 March 2015 by Pope Francis. He was consecrated and installed at Kinshasa on 7 June 2015. On 31 March 2018, The Holy Father transferred him to the Diocese of Inongo, as the Local Ordinary. He is a member of the Society of Jesus.

Background and education He was born on 11 December 1962 in Kinshasa. He studied at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Cyangugu, Rwanda starting on 29 September 1981. He studied philosophy at the Saint Peter Canisius Kimwenza Faculty, in Kinshasa from 1983 until 1986. He studied at the University of Lubumbashi from 1986 until 1988, graduating with a Diploma in Philosophy. He then studied Theology at the Jesuit Hekima Institute in Nairobi, Kenya from 1989 until 1992. From 1992 until 1999, he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome, Italy, where he graduated with a Doctorate in Canon Law.

Priest He joined the Society of Jesus in the 1980s while in seminary. He took his preliminary vows on 11 September 1983. He was ordained a priest of that Catholic religious Order on 18 July 1993. He took his perpetual vows on 24 March 2001, while a priest. He served as a priest until 31 March 2015. He continues to serve as the diocesan bishop as of 2019.