Wolfgang Pisa | |
---|---|
Bishop of Lindi President of Tanzania Episcopal Conference | |
Church | Catholic |
Archdiocese | Songea |
Diocese | Lindi |
See | Lindi |
Appointed | 09 April 2022 |
Installed | 26 June 2022 |
Predecessor | Bruno Pius Ngonyani |
Other post(s) | President of Tanzania Episcopal Conference |
Orders | |
Ordination | 01 September 1999 |
Consecration | 26 June 2022 by Beatus Kinyaiya, O.F.M. Cap |
Personal details | |
Born | Wolfgang Pisa Karatu, Arusha, Tanzania |
Nationality | Tanzanian |
Denomination | Catholic |
Residence | Lindi |
Previous post(s) |
|
Education |
|
Alma mater |
|
Motto | Satio I thirst ("I am thirst" ~John 19:28b) |
Coat of arms | ![]() |
Wolfgang Pisa (born 6 July 1965) is a Tanzanian prelate of the Catholic church. A bishop of Lindi since 2022. Currently he is President of Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) following the election on 22 June 2024. [1]
Wolfgang Pisa was born on 6 July 1965 in Karatu, Diocese of Mbulu, being the first born out of eight children. From 1983 to 1986, he received his secondary education from the form one to the form four at Franciscan Seminary Maua and then continued his studies in the form Five and six before going to the National service (JKT). In 1989, he joined the Capuchin Friars Minor (OFM Cap) for Monastic life and priesthood formation. He was sent to St. Augustine seminary in Kabwe, Zambia and in 1992 he was awarded a diploma in philosophy and religious studies.
He then joined St. Dominic major seminary, Woodland Lusaka for Bible Studies. In 1996 he was awarded a bachelor's degree in divinity. He later joined a Jordanian university in Morogoro,Tanzania and was awarded a bachelor's degree in theology.
After 10 years of formation and training, finally on 1 September 1999 he was ordained Priest. He began to carry out his mission at the Maua Seminary, Moshi as a teacher.
In 2000 he was sent to study at University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), and in 2002 he was awarded a master's degree (Masters of Education - Applied Social Psychology). He returned to Maua Seminary as a teacher and in 2005 was appointed Rector of the seminary.
In 2008 he was sent by the Church to study at the Catholic University of America(Washington), and in 2011 he was awarded a Masters in Social Ethics.
When he returned, he was elected Head of the Capuchin province of Tanzania and led until 2016, before being sent back to the Catholic University of America to study for a PhD in Social Ethics.
In 2019, he returned and served Kibaigwa Parish, Dodoma until 2020 when he was appointed assistant parish priest at St Francis of Assisi Parish, Ngulelo Arusha, and Lecturer at St Augustine University in Tanzania, Arusha Campus.
He served the parish and University until 2022 when he was appointed by Pope Francis to be the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lindi.
On 2 April 2022, Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Lindi. On 26 June 2022, Archbishop Beatus Kinyaiya,O.F.M. Cap of Dodoma ordained him bishop in Lindi. His Co-consecrators was his predecessor Bishop Bruno Pius Ngonyani and Damian Denis Dallu, Archbishop of Songea. [2] On 22 June 2024, he was elected President of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC), after the end of term of his predecessor Archbishop Gervas John Mwasikwabhila Nyaisonga.
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of three "First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant, the other being the Conventuals (OFMConv). Franciscans reformed as Capuchins in 1525 with the purpose of regaining the original Habit (tunic) of St. Francis of Assisi and also for returning to a stricter observance of the rule established by Francis of Assisi in 1209.
St. Lawrence Seminary High School is a preparatory high school operated by the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order at Mount Calvary, Wisconsin. The school is in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. It is an all-male boarding school, with approximately 225 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12. The school's mission is to prepare its male students for vocations in the Catholic Church.
Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel was the Bishop of Toronto from 1847 to 1860 and the only French and non-English priest to hold the post.
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lahore is a Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese in Punjab province, Pakistan.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mbulu is a diocese located in the city of Mbulu in the ecclesiastical province of Arusha in Tanzania. The seat of the Bishop is the Cathedral Church of the Virgin Mary.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Same is a diocese located in the Same District in the ecclesiastical province of Arusha in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lindi is a diocese located in Lindi in the ecclesiastical province of Songea in Tanzania.
John Dennis Corriveau is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served successively as the seventy-first Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and the sixth Bishop of Nelson.
The Archdiocese of Patna is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Indian. Its episcopal see is Patna, in the state of Bihar. A metropolitan see, the archdiocese has five suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province.
The Church of St. John the Baptist is a Catholic parish church in the Archdiocese of New York, at 211 West 30th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Fur District of the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. To the church's rear is the Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist, located at 210 West 31st Street across from New York Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.
The Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) is the conference of bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania. Founded in 1956, the Episcopal Conference was officially recognized by the government in 1957. It includes all the Catholic bishops of the country, ordinary, and auxiliary emeritus. Its headquarters is located in the capital Dar es Salaam. The statutes of the Conference were approved by the Holy See on January 8, 1980.
Capuchin College is a national Catholic seminary located in Washington, D.C., owned and administered by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
Bishop William Regis Fey, OFMCap was an American Roman Catholic prelate.
Samuel Oton Sidin is the Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop of Diocese of Sintang, being appointed in 2017.
Isaac Amani Massawe is the incumbent archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Arusha in Tanzania.
Eugene Mattioli OFM Cap. is an Italian missionary, who was the longest serving Catholic missionary in Arabia and completed 60 years of service in the Vicariate and retired on 30 June 2018. He is one of the people credited with establishing the presence of the Catholic Church in the Arabian Peninsula.
Joseph Oudeman is the auxiliary bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane and a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was consecrated by Archbishop John Bathersby at Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane on 11 February 2003.
Matthew Gregory Elshoff, O.F.M. Cap. is an American Catholic priest and Capuchin friar who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California since 2023.
Beatus Kinyaiya, O.F.M. Cap. is a Catholic archbishop of Dodoma in Tanzania.
Franciscan Seminary Maua is a secondary school in Kilema, Moshi, Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania. Maua Seminary was established in 1970 by Capuchins Friars missionaries from Switzerland. Currently, it is owned and administered by The Capuchin Province of Tanzania.