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Beatification of Fr. Dr. Joseph Ambrozoli to Take Place In Kalongo
23 January 2023, 3:38 pm
By: Rev. Fr. Isaac Ojok
The preparations are in high gear a head of time for the beatification of Fr Dr Joseph Ambrozoli, an event that will take place in the Uganda’s Gulu Arch diocese on the 20th November 2022.
In an interview with Radio Wa, Most Rev John Baptist Odama of Gulu Arch diocese, says a Central Organizing Committee (COC), with sixteen sub committees have been formed and are all working together to see how to accommodate people who will come to grace the occasion.
He says that formerly all beatifications, canonizations were done in Rome, but for Fr Dr Joseph Ambrozoli, his beatification has been decided by the Pope to take place at Kalongo where he worked and his life inspired many people he worked with and for.
Arch Bishop Odama said, the beatification of Rev Fr Doctor Joseph Ambrozoli is a great gift to the local and the entire catholic church and that it will be the avenue to glorify and thank God for His Goodness, Honor and seek His intercession and grace to triumph upon the people.
He noted that Fr Dr Joseph Ambrozoli inspired many people with his life of prayer, humility, dedication to serving people, kindness to the needs of the people.
He further described Fr Dr Joseph Ambrozoli as a priest who had a unique and special gift, discharged his duties diligently and as a result, many people got healed by his touch of being a doctor.
He reiterated that it is paramount and timely for the people to emulate the virtues Fr Dr Joseph Ambrozoli had like the virtues of love, humility, kindness, honesty, and the spirit of dedication to the ministry and serving the suffering people.
Fr Dr Joseph Ambrozoli was a priest and Surgeon by profession and has been described by many who sought for help from him as a person who had attentive love, care and concern for the sick.
According to the Arch Bishop, if all doctors were like Fr Dr Ambrozoli who had attentive love and care for the sick, many people could be healed, a unique gift from God to the church, he stressed.
Born in 1923 on 25th of July in Italy, Joseph Ambrozoli was ordained a priest of the Comboni Missionary(MCCJ) in 1951. In 1955, he came to Uganda and was sent to Gulu Arch diocese at Kalongo dispensary a health facility he transformed and spent almost 36 years serving the people there.
After his well-lived dedicated life of service in the ministry, Fr Dr Joseph Ambrozoli died on 27th March 1987 in Ngetta, in the current Lira diocese.
The term Beatification is raising a person who has been “Servant of God” to the level of Blessed, one step before being raised to Sainthood.
His beatification comes after 20 years when Blessed Daudi Okello and Jildo Irwa the two martyrs of Paimol from the same region, were in 2002 beatified in Rome by the then Pope John Paul II, now a Saint.
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