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Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides)- Cardinal Polycarp Pengo Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania was elected President of the Symposium of the Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar SECAM at the end of a Congress on Evangelisation and the 14th SECAM Plenary Assembly in Tanzania which ended 21 January (see Fides 13 January 2007).
Cardinal Pengo takes the place of Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria, who in his opening address to the meeting said he wished to retire as SECAM President. After serving nine years in the SECAM Council of Presidency, 6 years as vice president and 3 as President, he felt it was time to make room for another Bishop to lead the organisation.
The assembly elected as first vice president Archbishop Theodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar, in Senegal, and second vice president Bishop Francesco Joao Silota of Chimono, Mozambique.
Archbishop Onaiyekan thanked all those who helped in one way of another to make SECAM grow and added that he was willing to take on any task the new president might want to assign him for the development of the continental association.
In his address to accept the position Cardinal Pengo promised to continue the good work started by his predecessors, especially Archbishop Onaiykan and the other members of the SECAM council of presidency and he urged all the members of the association to continue to work for the mission of SECAM. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 22/1/2007 righe 27 parole 274)