What is Léon Kalenga Badikebele?
[[File:Léon Kalenga Badikebele (35676283526) (cropped).jpg |thumb|right|Léon Kalenga Badikebele in April 2017]] '''Léon Kalenga Badikebele''' (17 July 1956 – 12 June 2019) was a Congolese prelate of the [[Catholic Church]]. He worked in the diplomatic service of the [[Holy See]]. He held the rank of Apostolic Nuncio from 2008 until his death and was Nuncio to [[Argentina]] from 2018 until his death in June 2019.<ref name=bio>{{cite press release | access-date = 3 June 2019| url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2008/03/01/0146/00329.html | language = it | date= 1 March 2008 |title = Rinunce e Nomine, 01.03.2008| publisher = [[Holy See Press Office]]}}</ref> He was born in [[Kamina]], [[Haut-Lomami]], then in the [[Belgian Congo]]. Badikebele died on 12 June 2019 from a long-illness at the age of 62.<ref>[https://www.clarin.com/mundo/murio-monsenor-leon-kalenga-embajador-vaticano-argentina_0_rWayqchgc.html Murió León Kalenga, embajador del Vaticano en la Argentina] {{in lang|es}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkalenga.html Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Léon Kalenga Badikebele] [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalenga Badikebele, León}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo Roman Catholic bishops]]