Lénard Ndjadi Ndjate

Léonard Ndjadi Ndjate M.C.C.I. (born 2 January 1976) is a Congolese Catholic prelate who is auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 13 May 2023. Before that, from 13 August 2006 until he was appointed bishop, he was a priest of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order. He was appointed bishop on 13 May 2023 by Pope Francis, to work with and assist Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa. He was consecrated and installed at Kisangani on 13 August 2023 by Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa.

Background and education He was born on 2 January 1976 in Yanonge, Archdiocese of Kisangani, Tshopo Province, DR Congo. In 1995 he entered the Order of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. He studied for one year as a novice. He then studied philosophy at the Edith Stein Philosophicum in Kisangani. He followed that with studies in theology at the Institut Saint Eugène de Mazenod in Kinshasa. Later, in 2015, he graduated with a Licentiate in spiritual theology, awarded by the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome, Italy, having studied there from 2013 until 2015.

Priest He took his perpetual vows as a member of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus on 10 October 2005. On 13 August 2006, he was ordained a priest of that religious order. He served as a priest until 13 May 2023.