Top Vatican Official to Make Pastoral Visit

Ivan Cardinal Dias

Function: Prefect of Propaganda Fidei, Roman Curia

Title: Cardinal Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella

Birthdate: Apr 14, 1936	Country: India

Elevated: Feb 21, 2001	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Top Vatican Official to Make Pastoral Visit
Jul 14, 2007
The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Ivan Dias, will make a pastoral visit to Angola from 11 to 23 July.

Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi, 10 July 2007) According to an itinerary published by FIDES, Cardinal Dias will have a meeting on Friday in the capital Luanda with missionaries serving in Luanda, Viana and Caxito. On Saturday, he will travel to the enclave of Cabinda to preside over mass at the cathedral and visit the Catholic mission at Landana.

On Sunday he will go to Uije to preside over mass concelebrated by the bishops of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Angola and Sao Tomé and take part in celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the creation of the diocese.

When he visits Huambo, next Tuesday, Cardinal Dias will have meetings with the governor, missionaries and with major seminarians. He will then go to Lubango to preside over a mass for the ten years of the Angolan Institute of Religious Sciences.

On July 20, in Luanda, Cardinal Dias will open the Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa IMBISA, which includes the Catholic bishops of Angola and Sao Tomé, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

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