{"id":5225,"date":"2016-12-16T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2017-01-09T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:46:48","slug":"sudansouth-sudan-sudan-catholic-bishops-conference-gets-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/16\/sudansouth-sudan-sudan-catholic-bishops-conference-gets-a-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"SUDAN\/SOUTH SUDAN: Sudan Catholic Bishops Conference gets a New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By AMECEA Online News reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5227\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5227\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Rt.-Rev.-Edwardo-Hiiboro.jpg\" alt=\"Rt. Rev. Edwardo Hiiboro,  New President SCBC, and  Bishop of Tambura Yambio\" width=\"151\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>Rt. Rev. Edwardo Hiiboro,<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>New President SCBC, and<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>Bishop of Tambura Yambio<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sudan Catholic Bishops Conference (SCBC) has elected Rt. Rev Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Diocese as the new President of the Conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the letter sent to AMECEA Secretariat by Rev. Fr. Jacob Odwa Paul, SCBC Secretary General, the meeting which elected Rt. Rev. Kussala was held from 18<sup>th<\/sup> -27<sup>th<\/sup> October 2016 in Khartoum Sudan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President-elect will start serving the conference as a President on the 1st of January 2017. Bishop Kussala is replacing H.E. Gabriel Cardinal Zubeir Wako who has retired from the office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Hiiboro has taken over from H.E. Gabriel Cardinal Zubeir Wako, Archbishop Emeritus of Khartoum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5226\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5226\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Most-Rev.-Michael-Didi.jpg\" alt=\"Most Rev. Michael Didi,  New Archbishop of Khartoum\" width=\"195\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Most-Rev.-Michael-Didi.jpg 195w, https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Most-Rev.-Michael-Didi-53x53.jpg 53w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>Most Rev. Michael Didi,<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>New Archbishop of Khartoum<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardinal Wako retired as Archbishop of Khartoum upon reaching the age limit according to the Canon Law. He celebrated his farewell Mass at St. Matthew Cathedral on Sunday November 20, 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe time has come for me to officially retire. After this mass only when I have the desire to celebrate mass with you, I would do it; but it is not going to be the program of life as before,\u201d he told the congregation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardinal Zubeir\u2019s handover ceremony happened during the closure of the Jubilee Year of Mercy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new Archbishop of Khartoum now is Bishop Michael Didi, the former Bishop of El-Obeied. He was installed as Archbishop on the 9th of December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u223d<em>End<\/em>\u223d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AMECEA Online News reporter The Sudan Catholic Bishops Conference (SCBC) has elected Rt. Rev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5228,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/5228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}