Vatican Radio's father Moses Hamungole appointed bishop
(Vatican Radio) Vatican Radio’s Father Moses Hamungole has been appointed Bishop of
Monze in Zambia.
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.
Monze
Diocese has an area of over 60,000 square kilometres and a population of over 1.5
million inhabitants, of whom 303,000 are Catholics. There are 21 parishes, served
by 81 priests, 49 religious brothers, 117 nuns and 23 seminarians.
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
for a six-years term, the secretary and head of the social communication department
of AMECEA (the seven countries of East Africa), based in Nairobi.