Basile Mvé Engone

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name=Basile Mvé Engone
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Basile Mvé Engone (born May 30, 1931) is a Gabonese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. [ [http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/personer/mve/ Mvé Engone, Basile, S.D.B.] ] He currently serves as Archbishop of Libreville, Gabon. [ [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dlibr.html Archdiocese of Libreville, with historical details and membership statistics] ]

Biography

Mvé Engone was born in Nkolmelène, in the Oyem bishopric of Gabon. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on June 29, 1973 as a priest in the Salesians of Saint John Bosco. [ [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dqsdb.html Salesians of Saint John Bosco (Institute of Consecrated Life)] ]

Episcopal career

Mvé Engone was appointed coadjutor bishop of Oyem, Gabon on August 24, 1980. He received his episcopal consecration on the same day from Bishop François Ndong, with Archbishop André Fernand Anguilé and Bishop Félicien-Patrice Makouaka serving as co-consecrators. On the retirement of Ndong, Mvé Engone succeeded him as Bishop of Oyem on August 23, 1982. He was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of the see of Libreville on April 3, 1998. [ [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmve.html Archbishop Basile Mvé Engone, S.D.B.] ]

On June 27, 2007, Archbishop Mvé Engone, along with several other prelates, attended a briefing at the Apostolic Palace on Pope Benedict's impending "motu proprio" [ [http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070707_lettera-vescovi_en.html Letter from Pope Benedict XVI to Bishops] ] allowing wider celebration of the Tridentine Mass. [Catholic World News. [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52069 Vatican confirms briefing on motu proprio; publication near] June 28, 2007]

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