Bangui, 31 October, 2024 / 9:58 pm (ACI Africa).
Bishop Peter Marzinkowski, the pioneer Local Ordinary of the Catholic Diocese of Alindao in the Central African Republic (CAR), who died October 21 has been remembered for touching many lives in his “simple yet profound” approach to life.
Aged 85, Bishop Marzinkowski died in his native Western European country of Germany following a “short period of illness”, members of the Central African Episcopal Conference (CECA) announced in a statement ACI Africa obtained.
In a note shared with ACI Africa, Fr. Samuel Mgbecheta, a Germany-based member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans/Holy Ghost Fathers), pays a glowing tribute to the Priestly and Episcopal Ministry of his late confrere.
“Bishop Marzinkowski’s approach was simple yet profound. He met people where they were – he listened to them, spoke their language, and shared their struggles. For him, the Gospel was alive in the everyday realities of his people’s lives,” Fr. Mgbecheta says .in his Tuesday, October 29 tribute.
The Nigerian-born Catholic Priest overseeing the print and digital media of the Spiritans in Germany says that “as a defender of the poor and a peacemaker in a war-torn country, he (Bishop Marzinkowski) has found his peace.”