Cisa News REPORT:
TORIT, February, 03, 2012 (CISA) -Christians of the Catholic Diocese of Torit on Wednesday 01 laid the late Monsignor Silvestro Laharanya to rest at St Peter and Paul Cathedral cemetery, in Torit town.
Hundreds of Christians turned up for the memorial mass at Our Lady of Assumption Church and traveled to Saints Peter and Paul’s Cathedral cemetery, to pay their last respect.
Msngr Silvestro died on SundayJanuary 22, in a Catholic home for the aged, having been there for the last six years.
The late priest who hailed from the Diocese of Torit was born at Isohe in 1932 to Marko Loyee and Lotiye of Imotong, Omogoro Village.
According to the Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Torit, Fr Celestino Muras, the deceased was baptized in 1942 before joining Okaru Seminary and later Gulu.
He studied Theology at Tore River Major seminary and was ordained on 18th December, 1960.
He became the Vicar General and later Apostolic Administrator of Juba after the expulsion of missionaries from the Sudan.
Later, Msngr Silvestro worked in Loa where the SPLA forces captured him during the war.
Fr Silvestro died two months after the death of Fr Andrew Madrama in November last year and coincided with the memorial celebration of late Fr Saturlino Ohure, who is considered the founder of South Sudan liberation struggle.
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TORIT, February, 03, 2012 (CISA) -Christians of the Catholic Diocese of Torit on Wednesday 01 laid the late Monsignor Silvestro Laharanya to rest at St Peter and Paul Cathedral cemetery, in Torit town.Hundreds of Christians turned up for the memorial mass at Our Lady of Assumption Church and traveled to Saints Peter and Paul’s Cathedral cemetery, to pay their last respect.
Msngr Silvestro died on SundayJanuary 22, in a Catholic home for the aged, having been there for the last six years.
The late priest who hailed from the Diocese of Torit was born at Isohe in 1932 to Marko Loyee and Lotiye of Imotong, Omogoro Village.
According to the Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Torit, Fr Celestino Muras, the deceased was baptized in 1942 before joining Okaru Seminary and later Gulu.
He studied Theology at Tore River Major seminary and was ordained on 18th December, 1960.
He became the Vicar General and later Apostolic Administrator of Juba after the expulsion of missionaries from the Sudan.
Later, Msngr Silvestro worked in Loa where the SPLA forces captured him during the war.
Fr Silvestro died two months after the death of Fr Andrew Madrama in November last year and coincided with the memorial celebration of late Fr Saturlino Ohure, who is considered the founder of South Sudan liberation struggle.
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