Francisco Chimoio’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Catholic bishop
Is Priest 
From Mozambique 
Type Religion 
Gender male
Birth 6 December 1947, Buzi District, Mozambique
Age: 72 years
Star sign Sagittarius

Francisco Chimoio, O.F.M. Cap. (born 6 December 1947), is a Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop. He has been the Roman Catholic archbishop of Maputo, Mozambique, since 2003.

Life

Chimoio was born in Búzi-Sofala, Mozambique. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 9 December 1979. Pope John Paul II appointed him to the position of bishop of Pemba on 5 December 2000. The bishop’s consecration took place on 25 February 2001. On 22 February 2003, John Paul II elevated him to the position of archbishop of Maputo; he is the head of the catholic church in Mozambique.

HIV claims

In 2007, Chimoio he was quoted as having said that some condoms and anti-retroviral medication made in Europe have been deliberately infected with HIV “in order to finish quickly the African people”. He later explained that he had been misinterpreted.

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