{"id":10117,"date":"2016-09-06T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T06:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T06:44:44","slug":"bishop-valentine-takes-canonical-possession-of-livingstone-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/06\/bishop-valentine-takes-canonical-possession-of-livingstone-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Valentine takes canonical possession of Livingstone Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zeccatholic.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-10319 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/catholic-media-service-logo.jpg?resize=164%2C134\" alt=\"catholic-media-service-logo\" width=\"164\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/catholic-media-service-logo.jpg?w=316&amp;ssl=1 316w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/catholic-media-service-logo.jpg?resize=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a>By <a href=\"http:\/\/zeccatholic.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/bishop-valentine-takes-canonical.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Catholic Media Service<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bishop Valentine Kalumba, OMI has taken over canonical possession of Livingstone Diocese today Saturday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> September 2016 just after being consecrated Bishop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zeccatholic.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/bishop-valentine-takes-canonical.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-10119 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/bishop-valentine-kalumba-omi.jpg?resize=247%2C185\" alt=\"Bishop Valentine Kalumba, OMI\" width=\"247\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The consecrating Bishop, who is the outgoing ordinary, Rt. Rev. Raymond Mpezele\u00a0urged the new bishop to lead the people of the Diocese by being a good shepherd following the example of Je<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">sus Christ who remains a good shepherd. \u201cJesus was a good shepherd who loved his sheep both in word and action; and as a bishop, Bishop Valentine has to love Jesus and it is only by so doing that he will be able to feed the sheep of Jesus Christ,\u201d Bishop Mpezele said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And speaking on behalf of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops in Zambia (CCBZ), Archbishop Ignatius Chama, Archbishop of Kasama, urged the priests, religious and the lay faithful of Livingstone Diocese to cooperate with their new shepherd\u00a0by supporting him both spiritually and materially.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Representing the Universal Church, was the Nuncio to Zambia and Malawi, H.E. Julio Murat who thanked Bishop Mpezele now emeritus for the general \u00a0pastoral ministry he has rendered to Livingstone Diocese for the last 31 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The consecration was attended by various bishops from within Zambia and abroad, various priests, including Father Camille Konkobo, M.Afr, and religious brothers and sisters, traditional chiefs, civic leaders and\u00a0lay faithful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Livingstone Diocese covers the southern part of Zambia approximately 58,200 sq kms. Bishop Raymond Mpezele now emeritus has been the ordinary since 1985.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Catholic Media Service. Bishop Valentine Kalumba, OMI has taken over canonical possession of Livingstone Diocese today Saturday 3rd September 2016 just after being consecrated Bishop. The consecrating Bishop, who is the outgoing ordinary, Rt. Rev. Raymond Mpezele\u00a0urged the new bishop to lead the people of the Diocese by being a good shepherd following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[221,235],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bishop-mpezele","tag-bishop-valentine-kalumba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}