Background
Anthony Petro Mayalla was born in the Nyamhungu village(Nera), Ng"wabagole Parish of Kwimba District, Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania) on April 23, 1940.
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Anthony Petro Mayalla was born in the Nyamhungu village(Nera), Ng"wabagole Parish of Kwimba District, Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania) on April 23, 1940.
Master Religious Education, Loyola University, Chicago, 1975.
Mayalla enrolled in Loyola University Chicago from 1973 until 1975, where he received a degree in education. Mayalla was ordained a Catholic priest on December 20, 1970, at the at Ibindo Parish in the Mwanza Diocese. He was elevated to the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Musoma on February 22, 1979.
He served as the head of the President of the Training and Enterprise Council Council (Tanzania Episcopal Conference) beginning on June 1983 while he was Bishop of Mwanza, despite being a Roman Catholic bishop.
Miyalla was formally installed as the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza on February 28, 1988. He remained the Archbishop until his death in 2009.
Anthony Petro Mayalla fell ill at approximately 10:00 Master of Arts on August 19, 2009, when he fell ill and was rushed to the hospital. Mayalla died of a heart attack at the Weil Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza City, Tanzania, at approximately 2:30 P.M. on August 19, 2009.
He was 69 years old.