The Catholic Diocese of Monze has got a new Bishop following the resignation of Italian national Emilio Patriarca.
Vatican Radio’s Father Moses Hamungole has taken over ending Patriarca’s 15 year reign.
“Following the resignation of Bishop Emilio Patriarca in conformity with canon law 401 § 1, the Vatican appointed Fr Hamungole to take his place at the head of the Diocese of Monze which depends on the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lusaka,” reports the Vatican.
Father Moses Hamungole is head of the English Africa Section of Vatican Radio which provides news and in-depth feature programming in English and Ki-Swahili to a vast area of Africa, as well as a webpage that is part of Vatican Radio’s information service.
Born in Kafue (Zambia), trained in journalism in Lusaka, priest from the Archdiocese of Lusaka, he studied social communications at the Gregorian University, in Rome, and obtained a diploma in management and development of NGOs at the Gagilee College in Israel.
He went to Kenya to follow a course of human resource management at CORAT Africa. He is also shortly to obtain his PHD at the Kathoilieke Universeit Leuven, in Belgium.
Director of the TV Yatsani Studios in Lusaka, he was intern at the Telecare TV, in Rockville Centre, Long Island, NY, USA.
In 2002, he became on a six-year term, the secretary and head of the social communication department of AMECEA (the seven countries of East Africa), based in Nairobi.
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