{"id":236410,"date":"2026-06-15T17:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-farewell-to-bishop-osorio-citora-a-man-of-peace-and-a-missionary-who-believed-in-the-goodness-of-people\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:44:32","slug":"mozambique-farewell-to-bishop-osorio-citora-a-man-of-peace-and-a-missionary-who-believed-in-the-goodness-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-farewell-to-bishop-osorio-citora-a-man-of-peace-and-a-missionary-who-believed-in-the-goodness-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Farewell to Bishop Os\u00f3rio Citora, a Man of Peace and a Missionary Who Believed in the Goodness of People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"101\">Nampula \u2014 The Archdioceses of Beira and Quelimane have new Apostolic Administrators. This was announced by the Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique, Archbishop Lu\u00eds Miguel Mu\u00f1oz C\u00e1rdaba, during the funeral Mass celebrated on Friday, June 12, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Liberation in Quelimane for Bishop Os\u00f3rio Citora, IMC, who was assassinated on June 6. Pope Leo XIV appointed the current Bishop of Caia, Ant\u00f4nio Bogaio, as Apostolic Administrator of Beira, and the current Bishop of Alto&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150490.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>Nampula \u2014 The Archdioceses of Beira and Quelimane have new Apostolic Administrators. This was announced by the Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique, Archbishop Lu\u00eds Miguel Mu\u00f1oz C\u00e1rdaba, during the funeral Mass celebrated on Friday, June 12, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Liberation in Quelimane for Bishop Os\u00f3rio Citora, IMC, who was assassinated on June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,26399,8125,54568,8633,54623,6867,36919,4704,682,257,54567,6157,6321,254],"class_list":["post-236410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-believed","tag-bishop","tag-citora","tag-farewell","tag-goodness","tag-man","tag-missionary","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-osorio","tag-peace","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/236410","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=236410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}