Communications Team

The Fort Johnston Apostolic prefecture was erected on 29th May 1969. By then it covered the then Fort Johnston and the larger part of Kasupe (Machinga) District North of Shire River. It was entrusted to the Italian Montfort Missionaries. The late Right Reverend Bishop Alessandro Assolari was appointed first Prefect Apostolic on 18th October 1969. The Prefecture Apostolic was then erected into a Diocese on 17th September 1973. Mangochi Diocese covers the area of Mangochi, Balaka and part of Machinga District

2019 DIOCESAN TREE PLANTING DAY

On the occasion of official launch of Diocesan Tree Planting Day, Saturday, January 26th this year held at St. Paul the Apostle Minor Seminary (SPA)  in Mangochi, Catholics were urged to plant more trees and take good care of nature. District Forestry Officer for Mangochi, Mr. Léonard Kamangadanzi, asked the Church to employ added efforts

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BISHOP STIMA TURNS 64.

BISHOP STIMA OF MANGOCHI CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY IN OCTAVE. On the third day in the octave of Christmas, Christians celebrate the Feast of St. John, apostle and evangelist. However, Christians in the Diocese of Mangochi on the very Thursday, December 27, joined their bishop His Lordship Bishop Montfort Stima, Bishop to celebrate his 64th birthday. The

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BISHOP STIMA DEFINES CHRISTMAS.

“GOD’S LOVE AND HUMILITY HAS BEEN FULLY EXPRESSED…” Bishop Stima Says Catholics all over the world, solemnly celebrate the nativity of Jesus Christ on December 25th each year. The day has fallen on a Tuesday this time. In his sermon at St. Augustine Cathedral in Mangochi, His Lordship Bishop Montfort Stima of Mangochi Diocese reminded

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