MALAWI:
On 15 October, Pope Francis has transferred Rev. George Desmond Tambala, OCD, to the country’s Lilongwe Archdiocese where he will serve as Archbishop. The Malawian Archdiocese has been vacant since December 14th 2020 following the passing on of Archbishop Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye.
The Archbishop-elect has been at the helm of Zomba Diocese since his Episcopal Ordination on January 30th 2016. Rev. George Desmond Tambala made his perpetual profession on 15 August 1995, was ordained a Priest on 13 April 1996. In 1998, he went to Spain for studies at the CITeS, and in 2000 he obtained a licentiate in theology at the Faculty of Northern Spain. He served in various ministries, including Parochial Vicar of Kapiri of Lilongwe Archdiocese, Postulants Master and a teacher of Spirituality, and Superior of the house of Spirituality in Malawi’s Blantyre Archdiocese. He was general Definitor for Africa and Madagascar before he was appointed Bishop on 15 October 2015.
KOREA:
On 28 October, Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Peter Chung Soon-taek the new archbishop of Seoul and the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Pyongyang.
Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taek, O.C.D., was born on August 5, 1961, in Daegu. He first studied chemical engineering at the University of Seoul (1983-1986). He later studied philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of Seoul (1986-1992). He made his perpetual profession on January 25th 1992 and was ordained priest on July 16th 1992.
During 1993-1997, he was master of novices and then for almost two years he was master of students. Between1999-2004 he studied Sacred Scriptures at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and became provincial Definitor of the Discalced Carmelites of Korea in 2005, for three years. In 2009, he became the general Definitor in Rome for the Far East and Oceania.
