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The Diocese of Rumbek is located in the heart of the Republic of South Sudan. Today, it covers the whole territory of Lakes State and the southern part of Warrap State – a territory or around 65.000 km2 (larger than Switzerland). Its population can be estimated to 1.5 million people, although reliable statistics are not available.
The Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, formerly known as the Episcopal Church of Sudan, is a province of the Anglican Communion located in South Sudan. The province consists of eight Internal Provinces (each led by an archbishop) and 61 dioceses (each headed by a bishop). The current archbishop and primate is Justin Badi Arama.
Rumbek. The Holy Family Cathedral [1] or Cathedral of Rumbek, is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church is located in the town of Rumbek, [2] capital of Lakes State, in the African country of South Sudan, [3] [4] and that serves as the seat of the bishop of Rumbek. A relatively modest cathedral, it is a small building ...
and an Apostolic nunciature to South Sudan, but that last office in vested in the nunciature to Kenya (in Nairobi). Map of Latin Catholic Dioceses in Sudan (1-2) and South Sudan (3-9) : Sudan: 1 Diocese of El Obeid 2 Archdiocese of Khartoum South Sudan: 3 Diocese of Wau 4 Diocese of Rumbek 5 Diocese of Malakal 6 Diocese of Tombura-Yambio 7 ...
The Catholic Church in South Sudan is composed of one ecclesiastical province with one archdiocese and six suffragan dioceses. [1] There have been a total of 31 bishops in South Sudan to date. [2] The bishops of South Sudan and Sudan are currently members of one single bishops' conference, designated as Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
Rumbek is the headquarters of Rumbek Central County and is the capital of Lakes State, one of the 10 states of South Sudan.Following the peace agreement ending the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement chose Rumbek to serve as the temporary administrative center of the Government of Southern Sudan. [3]
The Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan was created on 11 September 1976; he then became bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rumbek, the largest in the province, where he would serve until 1988. He became dean of the province in Juba , in 1986, and served as acting archbishop of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, from 1986 to 1988.
Bishop Mazzolari was born Feb. 9, 1937 in Brescia, Italy. He joined the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, and on 17 March 1962 was ordained a priest in San Diego, USA. His mission brought him to Cincinnati, in the United States, where he worked among African American and Mexican American miners. He rebuilt the Diocese of Rumbek, after ...