Dom Jaime Gonçalves to be remembered by Mozambique’s Catholic University

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Dom Jaime Gonçalves to be remembered by Mozambique’s Catholic University

5:15 CAT | 24 Aug 2016

File photo / Dom Jaime Gonçalves

The Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM) is to create a professorial chair in the name of Jaime Gonçalves, Lusa news has reported.

Rector Alberto Ferreira is quoted on the institution’s website as saying: “It is with emotion and sense of justice that I announce that the rectory has decided to establish, from 2017, the first Catholic University chair, to be called the Dom Jaime Gonçalves chair.”

Dom Jaime Gonçalves was Archbishop of Beira and one of the main mediators of the 1992 Rome Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

According to Ferreira, “Don Jaime never got tired of repeating that his dream was to see a Catholic university that was capable of forming men and women not only intellectually, but also as social actors and custodians of ethical and humanitarian, democratic values, justice, freedom and transparency”.

Jaime Gonçalves died on April 6 in Beira, and his funeral brought together religious scholars and politicians from all quarters, including the current president, Filipe Nyusi, and the former head of state Joaquim Chissano, a signatory to the 1992 Comprehensive Peace Agreement of Rome which ending 16 years of civil war between the government and Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo).

At his funeral in April, President Filipe Nyusi, recalled Gonçalves’ “intelligence and insight”, to which Ferreira adds: “Besides being one of the negotiators of country’s peace agreement, Bishop Jaime excelled as archbishop and magnum chancellor of UCM, and was a tireless fighter for justice, peace, tolerance and reconciliation.”

Source: O País