{"id":24088,"date":"2026-01-15T02:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24088\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:34:12","slug":"you-are-exactly-the-right-person-cardinal-brislin-congratulates-bishop-sipuka-his-successor-in-cape-town-archdiocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24088\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou are exactly the right person,\u201d Cardinal Brislin Congratulates Bishop Sipuka, His Successor in Cape Town Archdiocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his January 13 reflection, Cardinal Brislin said that Archbishop Sipuka\u2019s appointment has been warmly received by the people of God in the three-nation regional Conference that the Cardinal chairs, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sacbc.org.za\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern African Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference<\/a> (SACBC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, together with all the Catholics in Southern Africa, and many other people, wish you every grace, every blessing as you take on this new role,\u201d Cardinal Brislin said.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged the happiness among Catholics in\u00a0Cape Town Archdiocese, extending his congratulations to the local Church. \u201cI know that the people in Cape Town are delighted, and I congratulate them too on their new Archbishop,\u201d Cardinal Brislin said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to assure Bishop Sipuka his continuous support as he assumes his new pastoral responsibility, saying, \u201cMay God bless you, Archbishop-elect Sipuka, and may He always guide you with His Holy Spirit. Whatever happens, we are always there to support you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The South African Archbishop-elect is the immediate former SACBC President; he has previously served as Assistant to the President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/secam.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar<\/a> (SECAM).<\/p>\n<p>He is the current Chairman of SACBC Finance Committee and the Catholic Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>On 4 July 2025, Bishop Sipuka was among the 22 new members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciafrica.org\/news\/16407\/kenyan-south-african-burkinabe-catholic-bishops-among-new-members-of-vatican-dicastery-for-interreligious-dialogue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appointed<\/a> by Pope Leo XIV to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/romancuria\/en\/dicasteri\/dicastero-dialogo-interreligioso\/profilo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue<\/a>. Other African appointees to the Vatican Dicastery included Bishop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic-hierarchy.org\/bishop\/blagho.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willybard Kitogho Lagho<\/a>\u00a0of Kenya and Bishop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic-hierarchy.org\/bishop\/bkambou.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ollo Modeste Kambou<\/a>\u00a0of Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"#\"><br \/>\n                      <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius: 50%; margin: 0; width: 75px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768444452_690_sabrine01_1748379247.jpeg\" alt=\"Sabrine Amboka\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sabrine Amboka is a Kenyan journalist with a passion for Catholic church communication. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in mass communication from St. Paul&#8217;s University in Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his January 13 reflection, Cardinal Brislin said that Archbishop Sipuka\u2019s appointment has been warmly received by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[645,647,646,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-24088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-cna","10":"tag-keyword","11":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}