Ivory Coast Foreign Minister visits Mangalore Bishop

Fr Francis Rodrigues, Raknno
Bellevision Media Network

Mangalore, 15 Dec 2012: His Excellency Charles Koffi Diby, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) visited Most Rev. Dr Aloysius Paul D’Souza, Bishop of Mangalore in his residence in Mangalore on Friday 14th of December 2012. 

 

His Excellency Sainy Temele, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ivory Coast to the Republic of India accompanied the Foreign Affairs Minister together with his team of consuls from Embassy in India.

 

Apostolic Nuncio of India Most Rev. Archbishop  Salvatore Pennacchio together with Most Rev. Dr Bernard Moras the Archbishop of Bangalore, Most Rev. Dr Henry D’Souza  the Bishop of Bellary,  Most Rev. Dr Oswald Lewis the Bishop of Jaipur and Monsignor Denis Moras Prabhu the Vicar General of the Diocese of Mangalore welcomed the minister and the ambassador to Mangalore. 

 

 

The officials have come to Mangalore to attend the funeral of Archbishop Most Rev. Dr Ambrose Madtha who was the Papal Nuncio to Ivory Coast.  The funeral would be held in Belthangady, his native parish.    He died of a road accident in Ivory Coast on Saturday evening 8th of December 2012. He was travelling back from d’Odienne  Diocese in Ivory Coast after a priestly ordination.

 

The officials together with the Archbishops and Bishops prayed for the soul of the departed Apostolic Nuncio of Ivory Coast.