Paulino Lukudu Loro

Paulino Lukudu Loro (23 August 1940 – 5 April 2021) was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan, from 1983 to 2019.

[1] He joined the Congregation of the Comboni Missionaries and was ordained to the priesthood in Verona by its bishop Giuseppe Carraro on 12 April 1970.

He was later appointed the as the Bishop of El Obeid on 5 March 1979, after five years of service as the Apostolic Administrator of that same diocese.

He received his episcopal consecration two months later from Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter's Basilica.

In 2015 for his 75th birthday, according to the customs of the Church, he sent his letter of resignation to the Pope, but Lukudu was asked to continue in the office until new bishops for three of his suffragan dioceses, whose sees have been vacant for many years, have been found.