{"id":23829,"date":"2026-01-16T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=23829"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:08:12","slug":"zambia-mansa-bishop-blesses-new-church-as-diocese-marks-65th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/zambia-mansa-bishop-blesses-new-church-as-diocese-marks-65th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: Mansa Bishop Blesses New Church as Diocese Marks 65th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Mansa Diocese Media<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bishop of Mansa Rt. Rev Patrick Chisanga has officially blessed the new church building at St. Peter\u2019s Centre, Mpandika, of Namwandwe Parish.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony coincided with the 65th anniversary of the elevation of the Diocese of Mansa.<\/p>\n<p>The Eucharistic celebration drew scores of worshippers, including civic and political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>During his homily, Bishop Chisanga commended the local community and stakeholders for their unwavering commitment to the project.<\/p>\n<p>He praised the collective effort of everyone who contributed resources and labor toward the construction.<\/p>\n<p>The blessing of St. Peter\u2019s Centre marks the first step in the observance of the new pastoral theme: &#8220;Go and repair my Church.&#8221; The theme is calling for parishes and prayer centres to have decent places of worship.<\/p>\n<p>On January 3, 1961, the Catholic Church in Luapula was formally elevated from an Apostolic Prefecture to the status of a Diocese with Rt. Rev. Ren\u00e9-Georges Pailloux, M. Afr. as its first Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mansa Diocese Media Bishop of Mansa Rt. Rev Patrick Chisanga has officially blessed the new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23831,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829\/revisions\/23831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}