Lucio Andrice Muandula

Lucio Andrice Muandula (born 9 October 1959) is a Mozambican prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Xai-Xai since 2004.

Lucio Andrice Muandula was born in Maputo, then known as Lourenço Marques, on 9 October 1959,[1] the second of eleven children.

[2] At the synod of bishops on the eucharist on 6 October 2005 he pled for an "urgent and necessary" call for "the fair distribution of priests in the world".

[2] On 31 January 2013, Pope Benedict XVI named him a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants.

[6] On 9 October, he delivered a homily as the morning session began, reflecting on the need to "let ourselves be guided by biblical wisdom" as "we are called to establish a dialogue of faith" even as "one risks losing one's trust in God, to adopt a completely pagan lifestyle".