AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of Bishop of Tete

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 12 April 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Tete (Mozambique), Fr P. Inácio Saure, I.M.C., Master of Novices at the International Novitiate in Maputo.
Fr Inácio Saure, IMC, was born on 2 March 1960, Balama, in the Diocese of Pemba in Mozambique. After the outbreak of civil war he entered the seminary in Maputo, and attended courses in philosophy and theology in the first year of Seminary at St Augustine's in Matola (1990-1992), continuing his theological studies in 1993 at the Superior Institute of Theology of St Eugene of Mazenod in Kinshasa (DRC). In 1998 he received his Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology. He made his first religious profession at the Consolata Missionary Institute on 7 January 1995, and perpetual vows on 15 May 1998. He was ordained a priest on 8 December 1998. After ordination he held the following positions: 1999-2001: assistant priest of the Parish of St. Makusa Lukunga, in Kinshasa, 2002-2005: Assistant parish priest of Mater Dei and Superior at the Community in Mont-Ngafula (Diocese of Kisantu); Director of the IT School and Deputy Regional Superior; 2006: Sent to work in Mozambique to work in formation; 2006-2007: Studied Italian language in Rome, and then a course for teaching novices at the Institute Mater Christi in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso); from 2008: Rector of the Seminary and philosopher for the Consolata Missionaries in Matola; from December of the same year he was master of novices at the International Novitiate in Maputo.
The Diocese of Tete (1962), suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beira, has an area of 100,725 sq. km, population 2,000,000, Catholics 270,000, priests 31, religious 65. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 12/04/2011)