| rdfs:comment | - In 1969, when Milingo was only 39, Pope Paul VI consecrated him as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka. In 1983 he was asked to step down from his position as Archbishop of Lusaka for his performance of exorcisms and faith healing practices unapproved by Church authorities. In 2001, when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, despite the prohibition on marriage for ordained priests.
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| abstract | - In 1969, when Milingo was only 39, Pope Paul VI consecrated him as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka. In 1983 he was asked to step down from his position as Archbishop of Lusaka for his performance of exorcisms and faith healing practices unapproved by Church authorities. In 2001, when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, despite the prohibition on marriage for ordained priests. On 24 September 2006 Milingo ordained four men as bishops without a papal mandate. All four men were married at the time of their ordination. For this act (illegal episcopal consecrations have occurred before, as in the case with Marcel Lefebvre), the Holy See declared Milingo excommunicated. Also, on December 11, 2006, in Washington, the archbishop ordained four married men as priests. He established the Married Priests Now organisation as a personal prelature to care for and to reintegrate into the church's ministry many of the estimated up to 110,000 Roman Catholic priests worldwide who had left the formal ministry and been married. On December 17 2009, the Holy See announced that Milingo had been reduced to the lay state, making unlawful the participation by the faithful in any future celebrations by him.
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