Maurício Agostinho Camuto

Maurício Agostinho Camuto CSSp (born December 26, 1963 in Golungo Alto , Cuanza Norte province ) is an Angolan religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Caxito .

Life

Maurício Agostinho Camuto joined the religious community of Spiritans and studied Catholic theology in Brazzaville . He put on 5 September 1987, the profession , and received on 28 July 1991, the sacrament of Holy Orders .

After being ordained a priest, Maurício Agostinho Camuto initially worked as a pastor in Lândana before he became the rain of the propaedeutic seminary of the Spiritans in the diocese of Malanje in 1995 . From 1999 to 2000 he was rector of the Spiritan scholasticate in the dioceses of Huambo and Benguela . Camuto was sent to Rome in 2000 for further studies , where he obtained a degree in communication studies from the Pontifical University of the Salesians in 2003 . After returning to his homeland, he became the coordinator of the commission for communications at the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé . From 2006 to 2010 he was director of the Catholic radio station Rádio Ecclesia . Maurício Agostinho Camuto was Provincial Superior of the Spiritans in Angola from 2010 to 2016 . He then worked again as director of the radio station Rádio Ecclesia .

On June 15, 2020, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Caxito. The Archbishop of Luanda , Filomeno Vieira Dias , donated him episcopal ordination on August 16 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Benguela, António Francisco Jaca SVD , and the Archbishop of Lubango , Gabriel Mbilingi CSSp.

^ Nomina del Vescovo di Caxito (Angola). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , June 15, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 (Italian).

predecessor	Office	successor
António Francisco Jaca SVD	Bishop of Caxito since 2020	...

personal data
SURNAME	Camuto, Maurício Agostinho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Angolan religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Caxito
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Golungo Alto , Cuanza Norte Province