Sudan Primate is “seriously ill”: CEN 7.13.07 July 14, 2007
Posted by geoconger in Church of England Newspaper, Episcopal Church of the Sudan.trackback
The Primate of Sudan, Archbishop Joseph Marona has traveled to Kampala to seek medical treatment and is seriously ill, the Church of England Newspaper has learned. The Sudanese Church’s commissaries in the US and Britain are currently raising money to provide medical treatment in Kampala, while the Bishop of Salisbury is working on bringing him to London for treatment at St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy.
Elected Archbishop of Sudan in 1998 following the death of his predecessor in an automobile accident, Archbishop Marona has overseen the regeneration of the Sudanese Church following twenty years of civil war.
Born in 1941, Archbishop Marona trained as an Arabic language primary school teacher. While in exile in Uganda from 1966 to 1973 he studied at Makerere University earning diplomas in education and history. Following the 1973 peace accords he returned to the Sudan and served as a school headmaster until his ordination in 1982. Elected Bishop of Maridi in 1984 he was translated to Juba upon his election as Archbishop in 1998.
In January, Archbishop Marona announced he would retire from office two years ahead of schedule due to illness. Sickness prevented him from attending the February primates meeting in Dar es Salaam also.
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