Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla is among the Three 21 Cardinals Appointed by Pope Francis from Africa
Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla is among the Three 21 Cardinals Appointed by Pope Francis from Africa
By Sr. Henriette Anne
Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla is among the 21 cardinals that Pope Francis named after reciting the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, July 9th.
The Cardinal-designate was ordained a priest for the Torit Diocese in April 1991. The 59-year-old Archbishop started his Episcopal Ministry in March 2019 as Bishop of the same Diocese. He obtained his master’s Degree and doctoral degree in Dogmatic Theology and thereafter engaged in teaching and forming candidates for the priesthood at St. Paul’s Major Seminary in Juba.
On 12th December 2019, Pope Francis transferred the Cardinal-designate from Torit Diocese to Juba Archdiocese. His transfer from Torit Diocese to Juba Archdiocese on 12 December 2019 was met with resistance from a section of the Clergy and Laity of Juba Archdiocese, who wrote multiple protest letters to the Vatican-based Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
On 6 March 2020, Pope Francis reconfirmed his earlier appointment of Bishop Ameyu for Juba Archdiocese, putting an end to controversies around the politics of succession in South Sudan’s only Metropolitan See.
The full list of new cardinal electors:
Archbishop Robert Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops;
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti; prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches;
Archbishop Víctor Fernández; prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith;
Archbishop Emil Tscherrig, retired apostolic nuncio
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States;
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem;
Archbishop Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
Archbishop Ángel Sixto, Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina;
Archbishop Luis José Rueda Aparicio of Bogotá, Colombia;
Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Łódź, Poland;
Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, Archbishop of Juba, South Sudan;
Archbishop José Cobo Cano, Archbishop of Madrid;
Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, coadjutor Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania;
Bishop Sebastian Francis of Penang, Malaysia;
Bishop Stephen Chow, Bishop of Hong Kong;
Bishop François-Xavier Bustillo, bishop of Ajaccio, France;
Bishop Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, Portugal;
Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, Superior General of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
