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Stephen Ameyu Martin Cardinal Mulla, the newly elevated South Sudanese Cardinal has been installed as President of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC).
South Sudanese Bishop Paride Taban who died at the age of 87 on the Solemnity of All Saints has been laid to rest in the Diocese of Torit, with mourners eulogizing the award-winning prelate as “a teacher, a wise man and a light” for many.
The newly elevated South Sudanese Cardinal returned to his Metropolitan See from Rome with a call to togetherness, emphasizing the need to invoke and rely upon God’s graces for lasting peace in the world’s newest country.
All is set to welcome Stephen Ameyu Martin Cardinal Mulla of South Sudan’s Catholic Archdiocese of Juba who was created with 20 others at the September 30 Consistory.
The elevation of the Local Ordinary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan’s only Metropolitan See, is an acknowledgement of Catholic faith in the East-Central African nation, the newly created Cardinal has said.
The newly created Cardinal for South Sudan, Stephen Ameyu Martin Cardinal Mulla, is expected to play the role of spearheading Church initiatives towards justice and peace in the country, a Catholic in the East-Central African nation has said.