Joseph Dupont (bishop), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French Roman Catholic missionary bishop
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Place of Birth: Gesté, Pays de la Loire, France
About 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.
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