José Lampra Cà (born 5 January 1964) is a Bissau-Guinean cleric who is the current Roman Catholic bishop of Bissau.Catholic-Hierarchy.org: Bishop José Lampra Cà
Lampra Cà received his holy orders on 27 December 1997 by the then-Bishop of Bissau, Settimio Ferrazzetta .
On 13 May 2011, he was named by Pope Benedict XVI to be the auxiliary bishop of Bissau and as the titular bishop of Lemta. The Bishop of Bissau, D. José Câmnate na Bissign, consecrated him on 12 November; co-consecrators included Carlos Pedro Zilli PIME, the Bishop of Bafatá, and Luis Mariano Montemayor, the Apostolic Nuncio of Senegal, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau and Apostolic Delegate of Mauritania.
On 11 July 2020, Lampra Cà also became the Apostolic Administrator for the vacancy as Bishop of Bissau after Câmnate na Bissign resigned.
Pope Francis named Lampra Cà to become the Bishop of Bissau on 10 December 2021. He assumed the position on 29 January 2022.
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