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Aug. 28, 2000 News media contact: Thomas S.
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By United Methodist News Service

Two new United Methodist bishops were elected during the church's recent
Africa Central Conference in Mozambique and assigned to supervise areas in
Angola.

Elected were the Rev. Jose Quipungo, 50, assigned to the church's East
Angola Area, and the Rev. Gaspar Joao Domingos, 39, assigned to the West
Angola Area.

The Africa Central Conference was held Aug. 16-20 in Maputo, Mozambique.
Convened every four years, the conference includes delegates from five
annual (regional) conferences in the area.  Quipungo succeeds Moises
Domingos Fernandes, who has retired, and Domingos succeeds Bishop Emilio de
Carvalho, who is retiring. 

Quipungo has been serving as pastor of Monte Sinai United Methodist Church
in Luanda since 1999. Previously, he served the Central United Methodist
Church in Luanda for six years and student pastor in the Rudge Ramos
Methodist Church in Brazil for three years. He earned his degrees in
theology from the Methodist Institute of Higher Education in Brazil. He and
his wife, Laurinda Vidal Quipungo, have three sons and two daughters. The
Quipungos will reside in Malange.

Domingos has been serving as general secretary of the Council of Christian
Churches in Angola.  Previously, he worked in peace and reconciliation and
youth ministry, and he was staff executive for the church's Africa Central
Conference. He served as pastor of the Galilee United Methodist Church in
Angola and student pastor at Rudge Ramos Methodist Church in Brazil. Before
his work experience with the church, he was a primary school teacher and an
officer in the Angolan Fisheries Minister's office. He earned his bachelor's
degree in theology at the Methodist Institute of Higher Education in Brazil
and graduated from the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, University of Geneva,
Switzerland. He and his wife, Lucrecia Manual Alexandre Domingos, have three
daughters and three sons. The Domingos will reside in Luanda.
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