Johannesburg, 09 November, 2024 / 11:43 pm (ACI Africa).
It is with a heavy heart that South Africa’s newest Cardinal, Stephen Cardinal Brislin, has accepted his transfer from Cape Town Catholic Archdiocese to the Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg.
In a video posted on YouTube on Friday, November 8, Cardinal Brislin weighs in on his October 28 Papal appointment to succeed Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale as Local Ordinary of the Metropolitan See that is headquartered in South Africa’s biggest city and the capital of the country’s Gauteng province, Johannesburg.
“I’ve come to know the Priests, Deacons, Religious, and the people of Cape Town Archdiocese very well, and it will be painful to leave them,” the South African Cardinal says about the people of God he has shepherded since February 2010, following his transfer from South Africa’s Kroonstad Diocese, where he started his Episcopal Ministry in January 2007.
Saying he has “mixed feelings” about his having to move on to a new Metropolitan See, the Cardinal adds referring to the people of God in Cape Town Archdiocese, “I owe them so much; they have given me such great spiritual support, and I will truly miss them.”
In the video recording, Cardinal Brislin goes on to express his readiness for the Papal transfer from Cape Town Archdiocese, adding that he hopes to get the support he needs from the people of God in Johannesburg Archdiocese.