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Uganda Episcopal Conference
Credit: Fr. Fred Jenga, CSC
By Agnes Aineah
The East African District of the Congregation of the Holy Cross (CSC) has been elevated to a Province, a move that the newly elected Provincial Superior attributes to the steady growth of the Missionary Order’s vocations on the continent.
On this Feast Of The Immaculate Conception Of Blessed Virgin Mary, we have just received the sad news of the death of Rt. Rev. Erasmus Desderius Wandera, Bishop Emeritus of Soroti. He passed on this morning at 6:00 a.m. at his residence in Mbale. Further details regarding his funeral will be communicated later. May his soul rest in eternal peace!
Fr. Giuseppe Ambrosoli, a Comboni Missionary Priest who ministered in Uganda’s Archdiocese of Gulu as a beloved minister of the Eucharist, surgeon, philanthropist, and educator. Credit: Comboni Uganda
By Agnes Aineah
The Apostolic Nunciature in Uganda has the pleasure to announce that on 25th October 2022 the Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Kotido the Rev. Fr. Dominic Eibu, M.C.C.J., and has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same Diocese presented by the Rt. Rev. Giuseppe Filippi, M.C.C.J., upon reaching the canonical age limit.
Press Communiqué from the General Secretariat of the Synod
Message from the General Secretariat of the Synod on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (11 October 1962 - 11 October 2022)
The 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council is a moment of particular grace also for the Synod, which represents a fruit of that ecumenical assembly, indeed one of its "most precious legacies" (Francis, Apostolic Constitution Episcopalis Communio, Sept. 15, 2018, 1). The Synodus Episoporum, in fact, was instituted by St. Paul VI at the beginning of the fourth and final period of the Council (Sept. 15, 1965), responding to requests made by many council fathers.
Most Rev. John Baptist Odama, Archbishop of Gulu with other religious leaders and a cross section of the laity attending the National Day of Prayer on Human Trafficking at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds on 9th September, 2022, guided by the Theme": *TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING different religious texts have were delivered by key .
