Newly Ordained Catholic Bishop in South Sudan Calls for “forgiveness, appreciation”

He underscored the need to reach out to each other with a helping hand, and added, “Life looks and becomes beautiful when we learn to bear with one another.”

The 49-year-old Catholic Bishop further called on the people of God in his Episcopal See to “preach messages of appreciation and thanks within communities.”

“I want all of us to go from here with the words of appreciation by thanking each other,” he said, and added, “It means a lot for us when we develop the attitude of appreciating and forgiving one another.”

“Sometimes we make mistakes that do not completely define who we are as the children of God,” Bishop Napeta said, and added, “I want all of us as children of God to congratulate, thank and forgive one another for what they have done for us.”

The newly ordained Bishop made a distinction between deliberate mistakes and those occasioned by the human weakness, unintentionally. 

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He advocated for patience “with one another as Christians especially when somebody does something wrong.”

Consecrated on January 15, Bishop Napeta has started his Episcopal Ministry as the fourth Local Ordinary of Torit Diocese, which has a population of 1,139,835 Catholics, according to 2020 statistics.

Patrick Juma Wani is a South Sudanese journalist with a great zeal and interest for Catholic Church related communication. Patrick holds a Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from Makerere Institute for Social Development (MISD) in Uganda. He has over 7 years of extensive experience in leading the development and implementation of media, advocacy, communication and multimedia strategy and operations, with an excellent track record of editorial leadership, budget management, and stakeholder outreach. He currently works as a Journalist for ACI Africa.