Emmanuel Milingo

Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo (born 1930, Zambia) is a controversial Roman Catholic archbishop and exorcist.

He was educated in St. Mary's Presbyterial school in Chipata and attended the Kasina Seminary and Kachebere Seminary. He was ordained as a priest in 1958, and was the parish priest in Chipata from 1963 to 1966, when he founded the Zambia Helpers Society. He was the secretary of Mass Media at the Zambia Episcopal Conference from 1966 to 1969, when he founded the Daughters of the Redeemer. Pope Paul VI consecrated him as the Bishop of the archdioceses of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. He served there from 1969 to 1983.

In the 1970s while still in Africa, Archbishop Milingo became an exorcist.

In 1983, he was asked to resign as the Archbishop of Lusaka because of his "non-conventional" healing ministry, and because he was conducting exorcisms outside of Church authority. He was sent to the Vatican to serve on the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples.

He became a supporter of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church and in May 2001, at the age of 71, accepted an arranged marriage with a 43-year-old Korean acupuncturist in New York. Father Gabriele Amorth, Rome's chief appointed exorcist, who knew Emmanuel Milingo, believes that he was "brainwashed by the Moon sect." [1]