Bernard Mosiuoa Mohlalisi

O.M.I. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on August 1, ...

(March 16, 1933 – July 24, 2020) was the

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of the

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from 1990 to 2009. On June 30, 2009, his resignation due to age was accepted by

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. He was succeeded as Archbishop by

Gerard Tlali Lerotholi Gerard Tlali Lerotholi O.M.I. (born 12 February 1954) is a Lesothan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Maseru, Lesotho, since 2009. Biography Gerard Tlali Lerotholi was born on 12 February 1954 in the mission of St. ...

, a professor at the National University of Lesotho. Mohlalisi was ordained as a priest on July 14, 1963.

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External links

Bernard Mohlalisi at the Catholic-hierarchy.org
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