Vatican: Theological Commission welcomes first-ever African woman. vaticannews.va

Pope Francis recently announced the appointment of 61-years old Sister Dr Josée Ngalula. She is a member of the Sisters of Saint Andrew. Sister Ngalula will be part of a 28-member theological Commission that comprises theologians from all over the world.

A native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sister Josée Ngalula was born in Kinshasa on 28 January 1960. She attended primary school in Kinshasa before proceeding to Kinshasa’s Kimwenza High school. She joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Andrew, where she took her first vows in 1979 and her perpetual vows on 21 May 1993. After studying philosophy between 1981 and 1983 at the Major Seminary of Lubumbashi, she pursued further theological studies from 1984 to 1989 at the Catholic University of Lyon in France. After a year of English studies from 1989 to 1990, she studied Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue in Birmingham, UK. From 1997 to 2000, she enrolled for a doctorate at the Catholic University of Lyon and defended her thesis in 2000…

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