Kampala, 05 June, 2025 / 9:57 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Mons. Simon Peter Engurait, a native of Uganda’s Tororo Catholic Archdiocese, as Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux Diocese in Louisiana in the U.S.
The Episcopal appointment of Mons. Engurait, who been serving as Diocesan Administrator of the same U.S. See was made public on Thursday, June 5 and published by the Holy See press office and the website of Houma-Thibodaux Diocese.
The Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Diocese became vacant on 19 January 2024 following the death of Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez at the age of 63; he had been at the helm of the Episcopal See since February 2023.
Born in August 1971 in Ngora, Uganda, the Bishop-elect attended St. Peter Minor Seminary in Soroti and St. Peter College in Tororo, Uganda. He later joined Makerere University, where he obtained a degree in Political Science and Public Administration.
He pursued a Master’s in Business Administration from the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands, and later relocated to the U.S., where he was enrolled at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans for philosophy and theology; he obtained a Master of Divinity.
