Guruè, 07 February, 2021 / 1:17 pm (ACI Africa).
The appointment of a new Bishop for Mozambique’s Diocese of Guruè is being celebrated, with some Bishops and members of the Clergy expressing their gratitude to God and prayers for the Bishop-elect.
The appointment of Fr Inácio Lucas as the new Local Ordinary of the Mozambican Diocese was announced Tuesday, February 2. The Diocese has been vacant since April 2019 when Bishop Francisco Lerma Martínez passed on.
“We give thanks to God for the gift of the Bishop long desired and expected by the Diocese of Guruè and by his Apostolic Administrator,” the Apostolic Administrator of Guruè, Bishop Germano Graciano Grachane said Friday, February 5.
Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula of Mozambique’s Nacala Diocese where the Bishop-elected served as Parish Priest of Saint John Alua and Rector of the Shrine of Saint Mary Mother of Africa, invited the people of God to pray for the episcopal ministry of Fr. Lucas.
“I invite you to unite our hearts in prayer to the Lord so that the grace of our God, the Gift of the Holy Spirit, will fill the life and heart and spirit of Fr Inácio Lucas and that can serve the Church with love and fidelity to the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” Bishop Aréjula said in a statement issued February 2.
