by Sheila Pires | Dec 19, 2025 | Uncategorized, Bishops' Homilies, Featured
Thousands of faithful gathered at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Pella for the Requiem Mass of Bishop Edward Gabriel Risi OMI, who served the Diocese of Keimoes-Upington for 25 years. Clergy, religious, and lay faithful from across the diocese and...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 18, 2025 | Uncategorized, Bishops' Homilies, Featured
The life and ministry of the late Bishop Edward Gabriel Risi OMI were recalled as a testimony of faithful service to the Church during the Memorial Mass celebrated at St Augustine’s Co-Cathedral in Upington. The Co-Cathedral was filled to capacity as clergy,...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 17, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured
The Catholic community of the Diocese of Keimoes–Upington gathered at St Augustine’s Co-Cathedral in Upington for a Memorial Mass offered in suffrage for the late Most Reverend Edward Gabriel Risi OMI, who served as Bishop of Keimoes–Upington for 25 years. The Holy...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured
In his Christmas Message to the People of God in Southern Africa, Cardinal Stephen Brislin, President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), invites the faithful to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation as a source of hope in a world marked...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured
The Apostolic Nunciature to South Africa has announced the appointment of Archbishop Zolile Peter Mpambani S.C.I., Archbishop of Bloemfontein, as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Keimoes–Upington, following the passing of Bishop Edward Gariel Risi OMI on 04...
by danvdb | Dec 12, 2025 | Bishops Foundation Newsletter, Uncategorized
The Bishops' Foundation Newsletter The Church in Southern Africa is mourning the death of Bishop Edward Gabriel Risi, Bishop of Keimoes-Upington, who passed away on Thursday morning, 4 December 2025, at the age of 76. His death followed several months of ill-health;...
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