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Paride Taban (born 1936 in Opari, Eastern Equatoria)[1] is a South Sudanese Emeritus Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and was the first leader of the New Sudan Council of Churches,[2] which was founded in February 1990.[3] he was auxiliary Bishop of Juba 28 Jan 1980 to 2 July 1983 and serve as a bishop of Torit from 1983-2004.[4]

Biography

Taban was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Torit in what was then southern Sudan from 1983 until 2004.[2] In 1989, when the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) overtook Torit, he was arrested with three other Catholic priests by the SPLA.[5] Until 1990 he and Nathanael Garang were the only two Bishops active in areas held by the SPLA.[6] Since his retirement from the diocese, he has been leading an effort to make peace in South Sudan real by setting up the Kuron Peace Village, established in 2005.[2] Before becoming bishop of Torit, Taban was auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Juba and the titular bishop of Tadamata from 1980 to 1983.[7] He was ordained May 24, 1964 and consecrated a Bishop May 4, 1980 in Kinshasa by Pope John Paul II.[7]

Taban was sent to Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide for reconciliation efforts.[8]

Bishop Paride has received numerous awards including the Sergio Vieira de Mello Peace Prize awarded by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2013 for his work at the Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron [9] and the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in 2017[10] for co-founding the ecumenical New Sudan Council of Churches, building Kuron Peace Village, and chairing the mediation initiative between the Government of South Sudan and COBRA Faction of the South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army led by David Yau Yau, which produced a successful peace agreement on 6 January 2014.[11]

In December 2016, Taban was appointed by the President Salva Kiir Mayardit as a co-chair of the steering committee of National Dialogue.[12] Taban has witnessed the suffering of South Sudanese since he was young and he was not happy to see south South Sudanese suffering in the hands of their fellow southerners[13]

In September 2017, Taban received the peace award of the United Religious Initiatives for Africa.[14]

In May 2018, Taban received the Four Freedoms Award, freedom of Worship medal [https://www.fourfreedoms.nl/en/laureates/year:2018/award:freedom-of-worship-award/laureates:paride-taban.htm]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btaban.html|title=Bishop Paride Taban|last=|first=|date=|website=The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church|access-date=2017-12-13}}
2. ^1 2 College of St. Benedicts/St. John's University Peace Studies Department biography {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929084159/http://www.csbsju.edu/peacestudies/religion/bishoptaban.htm |date=2007-09-29 }}
3. ^{{Cite book|title=Guerrilla Government: Political Changes in the Southern Sudan During the 1990s|last=Rolandsen|first=Øystein|publisher=Nordiska Afrikainstitutet|year=2005|isbn=|location=|pages=75}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/tori1.htm#6638|title=Diocese of Torit South Sudan South Sudan|last=|first=|date=|website=GCatholic.org|access-date=22 Jan 2018}}
5. ^{{Cite book|title=Civilian Devastation: Abuses by All Parties in the War in Southern Sudan|last=Rone|first=Jemera|publisher=Human Rights Watch|year=1994|isbn=|location=|pages=126–127}}
6. ^{{Cite book|title=We Have Lived Too Long to Be Deceived - South Sudanese discuss the lessons of historic peace agreements|last=|first=|publisher=Rift Valley Institute (RVI)|year=2015|isbn=978-1-907431-39-5|location=London/Nairobi|pages=32}}
7. ^1 {{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|btaban|Bishop Paride Taban|21 January 2015}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/06/south-sudan-bishop-paride-taban-rwanda-unity-peace|title=South Sudan: the bishop who brings home lessons of unity and peace|last=Anderson|first=Mark|date=August 6, 2015|website=The Guardian|access-date=December 13, 2017}}
9. ^[https://unmiss.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/UNMISS_PressStatement_2013_SergioDeMello_Award.pdf UN Statement for Sergio DeMello Peace Prize]
10. ^Award ceremony press release
11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/militant-faction-vows-again-to-fight-south-sudan-government/3527442.html|title=Militant Faction Vows Again to Fight S. Sudan Government|last=Simon Wudu|first=Waakhe|date=September 27, 2016|website=VOA news|access-date=December 13, 2017}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsghana.com.gh/south-sudan-president-forms-committee-on-national-dialogue/|title=South Sudanese president's call for national dialogue unlikely to end fighting as conflict spreads nationwide|last=|first=|date=20 Dec 2016|website=IHS Jane's|access-date=13 Dec 2017}}
13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.eyeradio.org/bishop-paride-taban-speaks/|title=Bishop Paride Taban speaks|last=|first=|date=March 6, 2017|website=|access-date=December 20, 2017}}
14. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.millhillmissionaries.co.uk/south-sudan-bishop-paride-taban-recieves-peace-award/|title=South Sudan Bishop Paride Taban Recieves(sic) Peace Award|last=|first=|date=23 September 2017|website=Mill Hill Missionairies|access-date=13 Dec 2017}}

External links

  • Kuron Peace Village page
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8 : 1936 births|Living people|South Sudanese Roman Catholic bishops|Sudanese Roman Catholic bishops|20th-century Roman Catholic bishops|South Sudanese Roman Catholics|Sudanese Roman Catholics|People from Eastern Equatoria
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