Doruma-Dungu, 25 October, 2022 / 8:36 pm (ACI Africa).
Mons. Emile Mushosho Matabaro who has been serving as Apostolic Administrator of Doruma-Dungu Diocese in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since July 2021 has been appointed the Local Ordinary of the same Congolese Episcopal See.
The appointment of the Congolese Cleric was made public by the Holy See Press Office on Monday, October 24, and announced in the Diocese by the Secretary General of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), Mons. Donatien Nshole.
“I have the joy to inform you that by its letter referenced n°4865, of 20 October 2022, the Apostolic Nunciature in DR Congo, asks the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), to bring to your attention that it has pleased His Holiness Pope Francis to appoint Monsignor Emile Mushosho Matabaro, as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Dungu-Doruma,” Mons. Nshole announced October 24.
He added, “The General Secretariat of CENCO is delighted with this news; it presents its warm and sincere congratulations to His Excellency Bishop Emile Mushosho and wishes him a fruitful episcopal ministry in the Church-Family of God, which is in Dungu-Doruma.”
The Bishop-elect is expected to take over from late Bishop Richard Domba Mady who died in July 2021.
