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( R e d i r e c t e d f r o m L i s t o f s a i n t s f r o m A f r i c a ) Josephine Bakhita , Sudan-born saint
This is a list of saints , blesseds , venerables , and Servants of God from Africa, as recognized by the Catholic Church or other Christian denominations.[1]
Before the Arab Conquest [ edit ]
In the first centuries of the Catholic Church, Africa produced many of her leading lights. The Catholic presence in Africa was weakened by the schism following the Council of Chalcedon which resulted in the separation between the Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Church, and even more so by the rise of Islam. Following the Arab conquest of northern Africa, the Catholic Church was largely absent from the continent before modern times, although the Coptic, and later Ethiopic, Orthodox Churches remained. The following are some of the notable saints from the first to seventh centuries, though it is a very incomplete list.
Three of the early popes were either from Africa themselves or children of African immigrants to Rome. All three were from this time period and are traditionally considered saints. They are:
Doctors [ edit ]
Three of the thirty-five Doctors of the Church were from Africa, all of them from this time period. They are:
Writers and theologians [ edit ]
Many of the early writers and theologians had connections with Africa. A partial list would include:
Mark the Evangelist , author of the Gospel that bears his name and founder of the Patriarchate of Alexandria
Apollos , may be author of the Epistle to Hebrews
Ammon the Abbot
Anatolius of Laodicea , of Egypt
Aurelius , of Tunisia
Clement of Alexandria , author of several works, whose cult in the Latin Rite has been suppressed
Cyprian of Carthage , author of several works
Didymus the Blind
Fulgentius of Ruspe , of Tunisia
Isidore of Pelusium , author of several letters
Optatus , author against Donatism
Pierius
Possidius , author of a life of Augustine of Hippo
Quodvultdeus
Abraham of Alexandria , of Egypt
Achillas of Alexandria , of Egypt
Adrian of Canterbury , of North Africa
Aizan and Sazan , of Ethiopia
Alexander of Alexandria , of Egypt
Alypius of Thagaste , of Algeria
Ammon the Martyr and companions, of Egypt
Anastasius Sinaita , of Egypt
Anthony the Great , of Egypt
Apollonia of Alexandria and companions, of Egypt
Arcadius of Mauretania , of Algeria
Arethas , Ruma and companions, of Ethiopia
Armogastes and Saturus, of Tunisia
Athanasia and Andronicus, of Egypt
Bessarion of Egypt
Caecilius, spiritual father to Cyprian of Carthage, of Tunisia
Cassian of Tangier , of Morocco
Catherine of Alexandria , of Egypt
Cerbonius , of North Africa
Crispina , of Algeria
Cucuphas , of Tunisia
Damian of Alexandria , of Egypt
Demetrius of Alexandria , of Egypt
Deogratias of Carthage , of Tunisia
Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus , of Tunisia
Dionysius of Alexandria , of Egypt
Donatian and companions, of North Africa
Epenetus of Carthage , of Tunisia
Eugenius of Carthage , of Tunisia
Fabius , of Algeria
Felix of Abbir, Cyprian of Unizzibir, and companions, of Libya
Felix of Hadrumetum , of Tunisia
Felix of Thibiuca , of Tunisia
Frumentius , of Ethiopia
Gaudiosus of Naples , of Tunisia
Isidore of Alexandria , of Egypt
Isidore of Chios , of Egypt
Isidore of Scété , of Egypt
John of Egypt , of Egypt
Julia of Corsica , of Tunisia
Kaleb of Axum (Elesbaan), of Ethiopia
Lucius of Cyrene , of Libya
Marciana of Mauretania , of Algeria
Macarius of Alexandria , of Egypt
Macarius of Egypt , of Egypt
Marcellinus of Carthage , of Tunisia
Marcellinus, Vincent, and Domninus, of North Africa
Marcellus of Tangier , of Morocco
Marianus, James, and companions, of Algeria
The Martyrs of the Plague of Cyprian in Alexandria, Egypt
The Martyrs of Utica , of Tunisia
Mary of Egypt , of Egypt
Maurice and the Theban Legion , of Egypt
Maximilian of Tebessa , in Algeria
Matthew I of Alexandria , of Egypt
Monica of Hippo , of Algeria
Moses the Black , of Egypt
Nabor and Felix , of Morocco
Nemesian and companions, of Algeria
Nemesion and companions, of Egypt
Onuphrius , of Egypt
Orsiesius of Tabenna, of Egypt
Pachomius the Great , founder of monasticism, of Egypt
Pambo , of Egypt
Pantaenus , of Egypt
Paphnutius the Ascetic , of Egypt
Paphnutius of Thebes , of Egypt
Paul of Thebes , of Egypt
Perpetua , Felicity, and companions, in Tunisia
Peter of Alexandria , of Egypt
Poemon , of Egypt
Quintian of Rodez , of Tunisia
Restituta , of Tunisia
Saizana , of Ethiopia
Sarmata , of Egypt
Saturninus , Dativus, Victoria , and Companions, of Tunisia
Serapion of Thmuis , of Egypt
Shenoute , of Egypt
Simon of Cyrene , of Libya
Speratus and companions, of Tunisia
Thaïs , of Egypt
Theodorus of Tabennese , of Egypt
Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura , of Egypt
Typasius , of Algeria
Valerian of Abbenza , of Tunisia
Victor Maurus , of Morocco
Victor of Utica , of Tunisia
Victorian, Frumentius and Companions , of Tunisia
Zeno of Verona , of Algeria
Modern times [ edit ]
It would be difficult to say who the first saint to be associated with Africa after the Arab conquest would be. Francis of Assisi famously went on a mission to Egypt in 1219. Berardo , Ottone, Pietro, Accursio, Adiuto, martyrs in Morocco (1220). Daniel Fasanella , Samuele, Angelo, Leone, Niccolò, Ugolino, Domno, martyrs in Morocco (1227). Louis IX of France died in Tunisia en route from the Holy Land in 1270. But after the canonization of saints came to be reserved to the papacy around AD 1000, and especially after the establishment of the Congregation of Rites in 1588, the list of official saints with African connections is more clear.
List of saints [ edit ]
The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated.
Serapion of Algiers , Mercedarian religious and martyr (1728, Algeria)
Anthony Mary Claret , Claretian bishop (1950, Canary Islands)
The Martyrs of Uganda [broken anchor (1964, Uganda). They include:
Justin de Jacobis , Lazarist Bishop (1975, Ethiopia and Eritrea)
Josephine Bakhita , Canossian religious (2000, Sudan)
Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur , layman (2002, Canary Islands)
Daniel Comboni , bishop (2003, Sudan)
Jacques Berthieu , Jesuit priest and martyr (2012, Madagascar)
José de Anchieta , Jesuit priest (2014, Canary Islands)
21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya , (2015, Libya) commemorated in the Roman Martyrology [2]
List of blesseds [ edit ]
Benedict Daswa , layman and martyr (South Africa)
Agathange de Vendome, Capuchin priest and martyr (Ethiopia)[3]
Isidore Bakanja , layman and martyr (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Jan Beyzym , Jesuit priest (Madagascar)
Lucien Botovasoa , layman and martyr (Madagascar)
Cassien de Nantes , Capuchin priest and martyr (Ethiopia)
Lorenza Diaz Bolanos , Daughter of Charity martyred in Spain (Canary Islands)
Michele Fasoli , Franciscan priest and martyr (Ethiopia)
Charles de Foucauld , religious and martyr (Algeria)
Joseph Gérard , priest (Lesotho)
Jildo Irwa , layman and martyr (Uganda)
Jacques-Désiré Laval , Spiritan priest (Mauritius)
Martyrs of Algeria , Trappists and martyrs (Algeria)
Samuele Marzorati , Franciscan priest and martyr (Ethiopia)
Eliza Liduina Meneguzzi , Salesian sister (Ethiopia)[4]
Ghebre Michael , priest and martyr (Ethiopia)[5]
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta , Holy Family sister and martyr (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Daudi Okelo , layman and martyr (Uganda)
Raphael Rafiringa , De La Salle brother (Madagascar)
Victoire Rasoamanarivo , laywoman (Madagascar)
Jean-Bernard Rousseau , De La Salle brother (Reunion)
Leonella Sgorbati , Consolata Missionary sister and martyr (Somalia)
Francesco Spoto , Missionary Servant of the Poor priest and martyr (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Irene Stefani , Consolata Missionary sister (Kenya)
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi , Cistercian priest (Nigeria)
Maria Caterina Troiani , Franciscan sister (Egypt)
Liberat Weiss , Franciscan priest and martyr (Ethiopia)
Francesco Zirano , Franciscan priest and martyr (Algeria)
List of venerables [ edit ]
Zeinab Alif , Poor Clare sister (Sudan)
Jerzy Ciesielski , layman (Egypt)
Felix Mary Ghebreamlak , Cistercian priest (Eritrea)
Edel Quinn , laywoman (Kenya)
Maria Teresa Scandola , Comboni sister (South Sudan)
Mary Jane Wilson , Franciscan sister (Madeira)
Luigi Lo Verde , professed cleric of the Conventual Franciscans (Tunisia)
Martyrs of Kikwit , Sisters of the Poor and martyrs (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Augustus Tolton , former slave and first openly African-American Catholic priest
Henriette DeLille , founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family , the second order of Black nuns in the United States
Pierre Toussaint , former slave and notable African-American philanthropist in New York City
List of Servants of God [ edit ]
John Bradburne , layperson of the Archdiocese of Harare; member of the Secular Franciscans; martyr (Zimbabwe)
Andrés de Oviedo and 8 companions from the Jesuits of Ethiopia (Ethiopia)
Andrés de Oviedo
François Abraham de Georgiis
Gaspar Paes
João Pereira
Apolinar de Almeida
Giacinto Franceschi
Francisco Rodrigues
Luis Cardeira
Bruno Bruni
Teresa Chikaba , West African nun
Peter Porekuu Dery , Archbishop of Tamale (Ghana)
Stéphanos II Ghattas , cardinal (Egypt)
Mariano Gichohi and 20 Companions, martyrs under the Mau Mau (Kenya)
Marianno Wachira and 26 Companions (d. 1952–1955), laypeople from the Archdioceses of Nyeri and Nairobi along with the Dioceses of Murang’a and Meru; Catechumens; professed religious of the Consolata Missionary Sisters and the Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Nyeri; martyrs (Kenya)
Daniel George Hyams and Domitilla Maria Rota Hyams , married laypersons of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg (South Africa)
Michel Kayoya and 43 Companions, martyrs (Burundi)
Bernardo de Monroy , John de Avila, and John de Palacio, Trinitarian priests and martyrs (Algeria)[6]
Vivian Uchechi Ogu , child of the Diocese of Mbaise; martyr (Nigeria)
Maurice Michael Otunga , cardinal (Kenya)
Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba and six companions, martyrs (Rwanda)
Bernadeta Mbawala , nun (Tanzania)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere , first president of Tanzania
Mario Bortoletto , priest of the Diocese of Treviso; Fidei Donum Missionary in the Diocese of Ebolowa; associate of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (Cameroon)
Luisa Mabalane Mafo and 22 Lay Companions from the Catechetical Center of Guiua, married catechists, catechumens, young laypersons and children of the Diocese of Imhanbane; martyrs (Mozambique)
Sergio Sorgon (Sergio of Saint Joseph) (1938–1985), professed priest of the Discalced Carmelites (Madagascar)
Teresa Kearney (Mary Kevin) (1875–1957), founder of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa (Uganda)
Manuel Costa de los Ríos (prob. 1604–1686), layperson of the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján , custodian of Our Lady of Luján (Angola)
Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo (1926–1996), professed priest of the Jesuits; Archbishop of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Jeremy Joyner White , layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Nigeria)
Aloÿs Kobès , professed priest of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritians); apostolic vicar of Senegambia; founder of the Daughters of the Holy Heart of Mary and the Brothers of Saint Joseph (Senegal)
Floribert Bwana Chui bin Kositi (1981–2007), layperson of the Archdiocese of Goma; member of the Saint Egidio Community; martyr (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Declan O'Toole (1971–2002), priest of the Mill Hill Missionaries; martyr (Uganda)
Giosuè dei Cas (1880–1932), professed religious of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (South Sudan)
Manuel Armindo de Lima and 3 Companions (Maria Adriano Abílio , Maria do Carmo Bartolomeu Simões , Joveta Paulino ) (d. 1982), priest of the Missionary Society of the Good News; laypersons of the Diocese of Viana; postulant of the Mercedarian Sisters of Charity; catechist (Angola)
Gabriel Gonsum Ganaka (1937–1999), Archbishop of Jos (Nigeria)
Göbou Yaza (d. 1928?), young layperson of the Diocese of N’Zérékoré; catechumen; martyr (Guinea)
Franziska May (Reinolda) (1901–1981), professed religious of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing (South Africa)
Robert Naoussi (ca. 1940–1970), layperson of the Archdiocese of Douala (Cameroon)
Alexandre Toé (1967–1996), professed priest of the Camillians (Burkina Faso)
Aloysius Ngobya (1896–1986), priest of the Masaka Diocese (Uganda)
Amedeo Byabali (1908–1979), nun of the Daughters of Mary, Masaka. (Uganda)
Julia Greeley , philanthropist and Secular Franciscan
Thea Bowman , famed liturgist and Black nun from Mississippi
Mary Elizabeth Lange , first known African-American nun and founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence , the first order of Black nuns in the United States
Angelo Graziani , professed priest, Capuchin Franciscans (Angola)
Henri de Solages , priest and apostolic prefect of Bourbon (Madagascar)
Eugenio Mazzini (Ethiopia)
Camillo Scarpa (Ethiopia)
Pietro Griso (Ethiopia)
Quinto Gardetto (Ethiopia)
Eliodora Zottig (Ethiopia)
Alfredo de Lai (Ethiopia)
Giovanni Prato (Ethiopia)
Weldemariam Tesfaghiorghis (Ethiopia)
Andeberhan Ghebreamlak (Ethiopia)
Franco Ricci (Ethiopia)
Other proposed causes [ edit ]
Others have been proposed for beatification, and may have active groups supporting their causes. These include:
Anna Ali, religious in the order of The Most Holy Eucharist and reported mystic. (Kenya) The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret has appointed a task force to investigate the life of Anna Ali. Hundreds of pilgrims visit her burial place every year to commemorate the nun who is reported to have received messages from Jesus for 25 years and to have photographed him.
See also [ edit ]
Congregation for the Causes of Saints
List of Algerian saints
List of Canarian saints
List of Central American and Caribbean Saints
List of Christian saints of Algeria
List of American saints and beatified people
List of Mexican Saints
List of Saints from Oceania
Roman Catholic saints of Canada
Roman Catholicism in Africa
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References [ edit ]
Citations [ edit ]
^ "Bienheureux Agathange de Vendôme et Cassien de Nantes" . Retrieved 9 January 2016 .
^ "BLESSED LIDUINA MENEGUZZI :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)" . Catholic News Agency . Retrieved 9 January 2016 .
^ "Ghebre Michael - Vincentian Encyclopedia" . Retrieved 9 January 2016 .
^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 36.
Sources [ edit ]
O'Malley, Vincent J. (2001). Saints of Africa . Our Sunday Visitor. ISBN 0-87973-373-X
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