Clergymen Wed

Jet Magazine
Section: Mr. & Mrs.; Pg. 26
Graphic: Pictures 1 and 2,

June 18, 2001

Emmanuel Milingo, 71, ex-Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, and his bride, South Korean physician Maria Sung, 43, celebrate their nuptials with 60 other couples, including former Catholic priest Rev. George Augustus Stallings, 53, of Washington, D.C., and his bride, Sayomi Kamimoto, 24, of Okinawa, Japan, and Nation of Islam Minister Benjamin F. Muhammad (formerly NAACP president Ben Chavis), who reaffirmed his vows with wife Martha Rivera Muhammad during the recent interfaith group wedding officiated by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church at the New York Hilton. Milingo sparked controversy with his marriage because Roman Catholic priests take a vow of celibacy. The Vatican said Milingo, who resigned from his post in Lusaka in 1983,
can no longer be considered a bishop, and further sanctions would be announced. Stallings, who was excommunicated from the Catholic church in 1990 for creating the breakaway African-American Catholic Congregation, of which he is now archbishop, has worked with Rev. Moon on a national evangelical crusade. At the request of Stallings and Milingo, Moon
selected brides for both men.