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Bishop Simon Peter Kamomoe: The newest bishop in town, and what it takes

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Bishop Simon Peter Kamomoe

What's in a name? Fate?

It's the 1980s, and young Simon Peter Kamomoe is dressed in improvised priestly garb - a bedcover as the robe, a stick for the staff and a modified carton for the hat. He is playing the part of a priest in one of the high school set books of the time, as a student taking philosophical studies at St Augustine Seminary Mabanga.

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