Joseph Dupont (bishop)
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 (then part of North-Eastern Rhodesia) from 1885 to 1911. He persuaded the Bemba, feared by the Europeans colonizers and by neighbouring tribes, to allow him to become the first missionary into their territory around 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.
Joseph-Marie-Stanislas Dupont M. Afr. | |
|---|---|
| Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa | |
| Installed | 16 February 1897 |
| Term ended | 28 February 1911 |
| Successor | Mathurin Guillemé |
| Other post(s) | Titular Bishop of Thibaris (16 February 1897 – 19 March 1930) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 21 December 1878 |
| Consecration | 15 August 1897 by Bishop Adolphe Lechaptois |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 July 1850 Gesté, Maine et Loire |
| Died | 19 March 1930 (aged 79) Thibar, Tunisia |
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