Juba, 26 July, 2024 / 8:53 pm (ACI Africa).
The recently appointed first-ever resident Apostolic Nuncio to South Sudan is hoping to build his diplomatic service on the “good work” that other Vatican diplomats have accomplished in the East-Central African nation.
In a Thursday, July 25 letter addressed to the people of God in the country that gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, Mons. Séamus Patrick Horgan says he looks forward to traveling to the country and beginning his diplomatic service in August after his Episcopal Consecration scheduled for July 27 in Rome.
“I pray the presence of a resident Apostolic Nuncio will make more immediate the closeness of Pope Francis and will reinforce the bonds of fraternity and love between the local churches of Sudan and the Universal Church,” Mons. Horgan says in the one-page letter.
The Irish-born Vatican diplomat says he hopes to build his service in South Sudan “on the good work of my predecessors as Nuncio and of the Chargés who have done so much to establish a solid presence for the Holy See in South Sudan.”
Referring to the first-ever Papal visit to South Sudan in February last year, he also hopes to “build on, and gather the fruits of, the Apostolic Visit of Pope Francis in 2023 and of his various initiatives in favor of peace.”
