Sebastien Kenda Ntumba

Sebastien Kenda Ntumba (born 11 June 1960) 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 consecrated and installed at Tshilomba on 5 June 2022 by Ettore Balestrero, Apostolic Nuncio to the DRC, assisted by Archbishop Marcel Madila Basanguka, Archbishop of Kananga, and Félicien Mwanama Galumbulula, Bishop of Luiza.