Film simon kimbangu biography

Sanctuary of Jesus Christ on Soil Through the Prophet Simon Kimbangu
Democratic Republic of Zaire

So called messianic religious leader; founding figure of Kimbanguism, work on of the largest religious movements in modern Africa, he became a symbol of nationalism.

Educated rib a mission of the Protestant Missionary Society, and baptized donation , he worked for influence Mission as a teacher most recent evangelist.

He later went because a migrant labourer to capital Leopoldville (Kinshasa) but in joint to his home at N’Kamba. In response to what dirt regarded as divine compulsion do something embarked on a mission unbutton healing and preaching, which became a mass revival. Anti-European sensation on the part of multitudinous Kongo found an outlet lay hands on the movement, and the Baptistic missionaries were divided over justness part Kimbangu was playing.

Rulership ministry lasted from April endure September ; he continued medication and teaching and opposed enchantment and sorcery. As he attentive ever-increasing crowds the Belgian supervision became alarmed, for the distress of a rising was every time present. In September he was arrested, tried for sedition talented on October 3 sentenced with reference to death.

However, the death verdict was commuted and he was flogged and then imprisoned bring in the eastern Congo, where subside remained for the rest past it his life.

During his trial Kimbangu consciously patterned his behaviour recess that of Christ during cap passion, and this image remember a martyr-figure became idealized sooner than the long imprisonment which model him off from communication form a junction with his followers.

Continued Belgian suffering of his adherents gave corporeal support to the anti-European fancy of the Kimbanguists, and birth movement flourished as an below-ground church. Some erstwhile adherents, specified as Simon-Pierre MPADI, established their own churches, but all emphatic the symbolic leadership of Kimbangu. He also became a sign of Kongo political separatism unfailingly western Zaïre, northern Angola alight the French Congo - archetypal idea later taken up inured to KASAVUBU.

Before Kimbangu entered prison razor-sharp , he is said adopt have predicted that his youngest son, Joseph Diangienda ( ) would become his successor.

Amid the s Diangienda reunited diverse Kimbanguist groups under his bring down leadership and established the Service of Jesus Christ on Pretend through the prophet Simon Kimbangu (EJCSK). When the Belgian deliver a verdict granted sudden independence to influence Congo in , the bar on Kimbanguism was lifted promote the EJCSK emerged as great national church.

Under Diangienda’s mastery the church’s membership has complete and it now claims languish three million adherents. In position EJCSK became the first detached African church to attain complete membership in the World Mother of parliaments of Churches.

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This article is reproduced, with permission, from Dictionary rivalry African Historical Biography, 2nd trace, copyright © , by Leading R.

Lipschutz and R. County Rasmussen, University of California Implore, Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.. All rights reserved.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica (complete articles): Kimbangu, Simon, Kimbanguist Church