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Diocese of Keimoes-Upington Bisdom van Keimoes-Upington		Bishop’s Coat of Arms & Photo
Patrons: The Immaculate Conception & St. Francis de Sales
www.catholic-keimoes.org.za	omikeimoes@telkomsa.net
Suffragan Diocese of the Province of Bloemfontein - Republic of South Africa

[Bishop's Coat of Arms & Photo] [Institutions & Religious Houses]

- OMI Emblem: The Bishop’s Religious family.

- The Open Bible: The poor have the Good News preached to them.

- Figures with bow and arrow: The first people who lived in the area of the diocese.

- Palm trees: The Cathedral Church at Pella.

- Plants next to the palm trees: Signs of life in the desert.

- Two persons touching the Cross: The people of God embrace the Cross.

DIE KRUIS: BRON VAN ONSE LEWE

(THE CROSS: SOURCE OF OUR LIFE)

In cruce salus

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Bishop Edward Gabriel Risi OMI

- born in Johannesburg on the 6^th of January 1949

- educated at Holy Rosary Convent School, Edenvale, and St. Benedict's College, Bedfordview

- entered the novitiate of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1967 and professed in February 1968

- 1968 to 1974 studied for the priesthood at St. Joseph's Scholasticate, Cedara

- obtained BA degree at UNISA in 1973, majoring in Biblical Studies and History of Philosophy

- ordained to the priesthood on the 12^th of July 1974

- spent five months in Lesotho, 1975

- August 1975 appointed assistant pastor of St. Margaret's, Diepkloof, Soweto, and became parish priest in Diepkloof in 1978

- appointed Provincial Superior of the OMI in the Transvaal Province, June 1984

- appointed Novice Master at the OMI Inter-provincial Novitiate in Johannesburg, May 1990

- served as parish priest of St. Peter Claver, Pimville, Soweto, 1990 to 1993

- appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Keimoes-Upington on the 5^th of July 2000 and ordained on the 14^th of October 2000

[Bishop's Coat of Arms & Photo] [Institutions & Religious Houses]

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