Júlio Duarte Langa (born 27 October 1927) is a Mozambican prelate of the
Catholic Church
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. He was bishop of
Xai-Xai from 24 October 1976 until 12 July 2004. He was made a cardinal in 2015.
Education
Júlio Duarte Langa was born on 27 October 1927 in
Mangunze, in
Gaza Province
Gaza is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 75,709 km2 and a population of 1,422,460 (2017 census), which is the least populous of all the provinces of Mozambique. Xai-Xai is the capital of the province.
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. He attended the local school before entering the Seminary of Magude. He then studied at the Seminary of Namaacha, in the
Archdiocese of Lourenço Marques.
He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Lourenço Marques on 9 June 1957.
On 31 May 1976,
Pope Paul VI
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named him the second bishop of
João Belo, which had been created in 1970. On 1 October 1976, the Diocese of João Belo was renamed the Diocese of Xai-Xai, so that when Duarte Langa was consecrated a bishop on 24 October 1976 by the archbishop of Lourenço Marques
Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, he became Bishop of Xia-Xia.
Pope John Paul II
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accepted his resignation as bishop on 12 July 2004.
On 4 January 2015,
Pope Francis
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announced that he would make him a
cardinal
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on 14 February. At that ceremony, he was assigned the titular church of
San Gabriele dell'Addolorata. He was one of five new cardinals too old to participate in a papal election whom Pope Francis said were "distinguished for their pastoral charity in service to the Holy See and the Church", chosen for their "pastoral solicitude".
He was the second member of the
College of Cardinals
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born in Mozambique, after Alexandre José Maria dos Santos.
See also
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Cardinals created by Pope Francis
References
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External links
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1927 births
Living people
Mozambican cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Francis
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mozambique
Roman Catholic bishops of Xai-Xai
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