Montevideo, Uruguay – January 2024 - On Monday, 29 January, at the Eucharistic celebration presided over by Fr Gabriel Romero, Regional Councillor for South America, Fr Francisco Lezama was installed as the new Superior of the St Joseph Province, Uruguay (URU). The Eucharist was celebrated in the church of Mary Help of Christians in Maturana, with the participation of family members, a good group of Salesians from the Province, members of the Salesian Family, lay people from the different works and young people from the different groups and oratories. Also present was Salesian Cardinal Daniel Sturla, Archbishop of Montevideo. Fr Gabriel Romero, on behalf of the Rector Major, thanked Fr Alfonso Bauer and the Salesians who have been part of the provincial council in recent years, wishing them a fruitful ministry in their new missions. Fr Francisco Lezama thanked the Salesians for their fraternal support and motivated those present to continue building the provincial community together, with a spirit of fraternity, dialogue and listening.