Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala is a man on a mission. Born in what is now South Sudan in 1964, he has been a priest for 25 years and bishop of the Diocese of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, since 2008. Bishop Kussala is also president of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference. If this were not enough to keep him busy, he is chancellor of the Catholic University of South Sudan, too.

Earlier this autumn, I sat down with Bishop Kussala at the Jesuit residence of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to talk about his life, work and the reasons for his visit to the United States as the representative of the US-based Sudan Relief Fund.