Priests arrested over shooting of bishop-designate in South Sudan Arrests follow the extraction of records from a mobile phone that one of the assailants had dropped while fleeing Updated: April 28, 2021 06:19 AM GMT Trending Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare with his community in South Sudan. (Photo: vaticannews) Three priests have been arrested after gunmen broke into the home of the bishop-designate of Rumbek, South Sudan, shot him in both legs and fled. In stable condition after emergency surgery at a local hospital, Italian-born Bishop-designate Christian Carlassare, 43, was to be transferred to a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, for a transfusion and further medical care, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.