Kinshasa, 03 July, 2024 / 11:25 am (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Fulgence Muteba Mugalu of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who was elected President of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) on June 27 has described his new position as both challenging and a great task.
Speaking to journalists at the end of the Plenary Assembly of CENCO in the Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa, Archbishop Muteba thanked CENCO members for choosing him as their new President.
“I thank God for this new position he has just given me. I thank His Eminence the Cardinal, the Archbishops, and the member Bishops of CENCO for choosing me. I know it's a great responsibility. I see it as a new challenge,” Archbishop Muteba said on June 29.
He added, “I'd really like us to work together so that our Church in DRC becomes more synodal, authentically evangelizing, and effectively prophetic.”
“The essential thing is that the tradition we have received from our predecessors can be perpetuated in calm and harmony, in the knowledge that the mission of the Church is first and foremost to announce, but also to denounce from time to time if circumstances allow,” the Congolese Archbishop said.