Costantine Malaba Sylvester is originally from the Diocese of Bunda in Tanzania.

"It is a beautiful African and tropical country, where I was born, grew up, and received both human and Christian formation before entering seminary. It is also in Tanzania that I have met God and discovered my vocation".

After passing through the minor seminary, in 2017 his bishop decided to send him to Pamplona to continue his formation at the Bidasoa International Seminary and the University of Navarra.

"Here I have received and continue to receive great gifts that have marked my life and my future ministry forever. It has been an enormous opportunity in these three years that I have done, to perfect myself as a person, to progress academically and to grow spiritually and pastorally so that in the near future I can serve the Lord as a priest."

And this is what he shares with us:

"I am Constantine Malaba Sylvester from the Diocese of Bunda. I come from Tanzania, a beautiful African and tropical country, where I was born, raised, and received both human and Christian formation after entering the seminary.

It is in 2017 where by the Divine Province brought me to Spain to be formed in the Bidasoa International Seminary and to carry out my intellectual formation at the University of Navarra. I was ordained a priest, after theological formation. And thank God after the ordination I was sent back to study the licentiate at the University of Navarra. So at the moment I am finishing my first year of the degree specializing in Moral Theology and Spiritual Psychology.

Thank you very much for the indispensable help that has helped me throughout these years of formation. Thank you for your material help, support and generous dedication in prayer.

I am very proud to have met them, generous-hearted people who care affectionately and effectively for the priestly formation of the Church of Christ. I pray that we, the beneficiaries of this dear foundation, may have the grace to correspond greatly to the great trust placed in us, both seminarians and priests, with our priestly life.

I pray in a special way for all benefactors who so generously give away their goods for the formation of priests.

May God bless all those who are part of the CARF Foundation and may their efforts be fruitful forever".