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It was “with heavy hearts” that the people of God in Cape Town Archdiocese (ADCT) received the news of the Papal transfer of their shepherd, Stephen Cardinal Brislin , the Auxiliary Bishop of the South African Archdiocese has said.
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.
Pope Francis has transferred Stephen Cardinal Brislin, who has been at the helm of Cape Town Catholic Archdiocese in South Africa to the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg.
Stephen Cardinal Brislin has called for prayer for an end to the Israel-Hamas war following the reported December 16 attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza and on the Centre for Disabled Children, which the Missionaries of Charity run within the Parish compound.
Stephen Cardinal Brislin of South Africa’s Cape Town Archdiocese has directed all Parishes in his Metropolitan See to pray for those affected by the Israel-Palestine violence that he says has created a “very troubling situation” in Holy Land.
One of Stephen Cardinal Brislin’s tasks in Southern Africa will be to call leaders out when they deceive those they govern, the President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has said.