Africa-Press – Seychelles. Pope Francis appointed this Friday, May 19, 2023, Father Jean Michaël Durhône, currently parish priest of Notre Dame du Refuge (New Grove) and Sainte Famille (Rose-Belle), bishop of Port-Louis, Mauritius.
Father Durhône succeeds Cardinal Maurice E. Piat and thus becomes the 12th Bishop of Port-Louis and the third Mauritian priest to succeed the Apostles on Mauritian soil.
Ordained on August 7, 2005, Father Durhône was immediately appointed curate at Saint-Louis Cathedral. In 2010, he studied catechesis at Lumen Vitae University in Belgium.
On his return in 2012, he was appointed head of Catechesis and the Vocations Service as well as curate at the parish of Sainte-Hélène, in Curepipe. He was appointed chaplain of Altar Servers in 2012, of St Mary’s Rose Hill and St Mary’s West Colleges, Petite Rivière, in 2013 and of the Catholic Workers’ Youth in 2018. In September 2015, he was acting parish priest at Notre-Dame -de-la-Visitation, in Vacoas before being named vicar in Saint-Sauveur, in Bambous.
On July 31, 2016, Cardinal Piat appointed him Episcopal Delegate of the Diocesan Service for Catechesis and the Catechumenate. He also holds the position of secretary of the Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean (CEDOI). In 2020, Cardinal Piat entrusted him with the charge of the Diocesan Youth Ministry Service. He was appointed parish priest of Sainte-Famille, in Rose-Belle, in 2022.
As a reminder, it was in 2016 that Bishop Maurice E. Piat submitted to Pope Francis his letter of resignation as Bishop of Port-Louis. In November of that same year, he was elevated to the rank of cardinal by Pope Francis.
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