{"id":189494,"date":"2025-01-24T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-erection-of-the-diocese-of-alto-molocue-and-appointment-of-first-bishop\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:38:09","slug":"mozambique-erection-of-the-diocese-of-alto-molocue-and-appointment-of-first-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-erection-of-the-diocese-of-alto-molocue-and-appointment-of-first-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Erection of the Diocese of Alto Mol\u00f3cu\u00e8 and Appointment of First Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Vatican City \u2014 The Holy Father has erected the diocese of Alto Mol\u00f3cu\u00e8, Mozambique, with territory taken from the dioceses of Gur\u00fa\u00e8 and Quelimane, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nampula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Est\u00eav\u00e3o \u00c2ngelo Fernando of the clergy of Quelimane as first bishop of the diocese of Alto Mol\u00f3cu\u00e8, Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Msgr. Est\u00eav\u00e3o \u00c2ngelo Fernando was born on 17 June 1974, in Inhassunge, in the diocese of Quelimane. After attending the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230530.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City \u2014 The Holy Father has erected the diocese of Alto Mol\u00f3cu\u00e8, Mozambique, with territory taken from the dioceses of Gur\u00fa\u00e8 and Quelimane, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nampula. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Est\u00eav\u00e3o \u00c2ngelo Fernando of the clergy of Quelimane as first bishop of the diocese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,31021,6465,8125,28138,14329,46738,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-189494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alto","tag-appointment","tag-bishop","tag-diocese","tag-erection","tag-molocue","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}