Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy
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Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Willesden | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | London |
| In office | 2022 to present |
| Predecessor | Pete Broadbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 2008 (deacon) 2009 (priest) |
| Consecration | 25 January 2022 by Justin Welby |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 1977 (age 47) Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Alma mater | Cranmer Hall, Durham |
Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy (born June 1977) is an Anglican bishop. Since 2022, he has served as Bishop of Willesden, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of London.
Nsenga-Ngoy was born in June 1977 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1][2][3] In 1985, aged 8, he moved with his family to Belgium.[4][5] He studied theology at the Faculté Universitaire de Théologie Protestante in Brussels.[6] From 2001 to 2007, he was then Pasteur to the Église Protestante Française de Cantorbéry (French Protestant Church of Canterbury).[5][7] Following this, he trained for Anglican ministry at Cranmer Hall, Durham.[6]
Nsenga-Ngoy was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2008 and as a priest in 2009.[1] He served his curacy at All Saints Church, Staplehurst, in the Diocese of Canterbury between 2008 and 2012.[1] He then became Vicar of St Aidan's Church, Gravesend in 2012.[1] Then, from 2017 until his elevation to the episcopate, he was BAME Mission and Ministry Enabler in the Diocese of Leicester.[8]
In November 2021, he was announced as the next Bishop of Willesden, a suffragan an area bishop in the Diocese of London.[8][9] He was consecrated as a bishop by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, during a service at St Paul's Cathedral on 25 January 2022.[10][11]