Daniel Deng Bul Yak

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Daniel Deng Bul Yak

Daniel Deng Bul Yak (* 1950 Tuic area in Bor district, Junqali , now South Sudan ) has been Archbishop of Juba since 2008 and the fourth primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan .

Life

Daniel Deng Bul Yak grew up in a small village in South Sudan. He belongs to the Dinka people . At the age of seventeen he began working as an evangelist with Dinka congregations in Khartoum .

He graduated from Bishop Gwynne College, Mundri in 1977 and was ordained a priest a year later . For the next ten years he worked as a priest in Port Sudan , planting churches, working in prisons and teaching at night schools. From 1988 he worked in ar-Rank, the northernmost city of South Sudan in the A'ali an-Nil province, which was fought over in the Civil War from 1983 to 2005 . Together with the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches, he built the first church building and later the first church building of the Episcopal Church of Sudan.

In 1995 he was ordained the first bishop of the newly established diocese of ar-Rank. He studied for two years at Virginia Theology Seminary in the United States - the first school he said he attended that was not subsequently destroyed by government forces - where he graduated with a degree in theology. Back in his diocese, he founded four elementary schools, a secondary school, a Bible school (today the ar-Rank Theological Seminary) and the ar-Rank hospital and began a project for the translation of the Old Testament into the Dinka language . At the same time he initiated numerous agricultural projects, a restaurant and a guest house where the women of his diocese could work to improve the economic situation, and after the peace treaty in 2005 he took care of the integration of tens of thousands of returning refugees. In 2008, the St. Matthew Cathedral built by him was consecrated in ar-Rank by Archbishop Rowan Williams .

In addition to his duties in the diocese, he also served the Church as a whole in various functions, such as Secretary of the House of Bishops and Chairman of the Peace, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

When Joseph Marona , the primate of the Episcopal Church of Sudan resigned due to illness at the end of 2007, Deng Bul was elected from three candidates in the first ballot and installed on April 20, 2008 in a four-hour liturgy in the All Saints Cathedral in Juba. In addition to numerous bishops from other Anglican provinces, Salva Kiir Mayardit , the President of South Sudan, also took part in the ceremony.

In 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from Virginia Theology Seminary.

Deng Bul is married and has five children and three grandchildren.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Visiting Teachers Offer Hebrew & Greek at Renk Bible College ( Memento June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Interview with Bishop Daniel Deng Bul ( Memento from August 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ New Sudan Vision: Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) elects Daniel Deng Bul as new Archbishop
  4. ^ Virginia Theology Seminary: Archbishop of Sudan awarded with honorary doctorate at Virginia Seminary
personal data
SURNAME Deng Bul Yak, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudanese clergyman, primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuic area in Bor District, Junqali , Sudan