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| title = | | title = Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa | ||
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| successor = | | successor = Mathurin Guillemé | ||
| other_post = Titular Bishop of Thibaris (16 February 1897 – 19 March 1930) | | other_post = Titular Bishop of Thibaris (16 February 1897 – 19 March 1930) | ||
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1850|07|23|df=y}} | | birth_date = {{Birth date|1850|07|23|df=y}} | ||
| birth_place = | | birth_place = Gesté, Maine et Loire | ||
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|03|19|1850|07|23|df=y}} | | death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|03|19|1850|07|23|df=y}} | ||
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'''Joseph-Marie-Stanislas Dupont''' (23 July 1850 – 19 March 1930), nicknamed '''Moto Moto''' ('fire fire') by the [[Bemba people]] was a | '''Joseph-Marie-Stanislas Dupont''' (23 July 1850 – 19 March 1930), nicknamed '''Moto Moto''' ('fire fire') by the [[Bemba people]] was a French Catholic missionary bishop, who was a pioneer in [[Zambia]]'s [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]] (then part of [[North-Eastern Rhodesia]]) from 1885 to 1911. He persuaded the [[Bemba people|Bemba]], feared by the Europeans colonizers and by neighbouring tribes, to allow him to become the first missionary into their territory around [[Kasama, Zambia|Kasama]]. At the time the [[British South Africa Company]] (BSAC) chartered by Britain to administer [[North-Eastern Rhodesia]] was not in control of all the territory.<ref name="Diompika">[http://www.diompika.org/1,cchistory,about,1.html Website of the Catholic Diocese of Mpika: "Brief history of the Catholic Church in Zambia."] Accessed 25 March 2007.</ref> | ||
==Origins== | ==Origins== | ||
Dupont was born in | Dupont was born in Gesté, Maine et Loire, on 23 July 1850 to a peasant family. After a short and quite successful military service, he studied to become a member of the [[White Fathers]] missionary society, now called the Society of the Missionaries of Africa. He was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] a priest on 21 December 1878, and took his oath as a member of the White Fathers the following year. He was then sent to teach at the College of Saint-Louis of Carthage at Thibar in the [[French protectorate of Tunisia]], now in the [[Béja Governorate]]. He was later sent to the [[Karema, Tanzania|Karema]] Mission on [[Lake Tanganyika]] in 1892.<ref name="dacb">[http://www.dacb.org/stories/zambia/dupont_joseph.html Dictionary of African Christian Biography website" "Dupont, Joseph".] Accessed 15 March 2007.]</ref> | ||
==Early years in Africa== | ==Early years in Africa== | ||
