President Michael Sata says he has learnt with profound sorrow and regret the passing of MEDARDO Cardinal Joseph Mazombwe in Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH) on Thursday, August 29, 2013.
President Sata has described the death of the Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka Archdiocese and Zambia’s first indigenous Cardinal, as a huge blow to the country and the Church.
He has since conveyed his deepest sympathy to the entire Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka, the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC), and his family.
Mr Sata says recalls the late Cardinal as a courageous and enthusiastic revered cleric for many years, in particular as a young priest in the 1960s, as Bishop of Chipata Diocese in the 1970s and as the Archbishop of Lusaka until his retirement in 2006.
He adds that most visible among some of his numerous pastoral initiatives, is the magnificent Cathedral of the Child Jesus (Pope Square) in Lusaka.
The President says the late Cardinal Mazombwe’s passion and commitment to the nation and the poor is equally worth of praise.
He recalls the role Cardinal Mazombwe played, as Archbishop of Lusaka then, in championing the cancellation of Zambia’s international debt, in the Jubilee 2000 movement.
Cardinal Mazombwe held several senior positions in the local and regional Church, such as Zambia Episcopal President and as Chairman of the regional conferences of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa.
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