sentences:  As of Wednesday, July 3, 2013, the archdiocese is a vacant see (sede vacante).The metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Blantyre (he had served since January 23, 2001), Archbishop Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye, age 60, was appointed by Pope Francis to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe, which had previously, as a diocese, been a part of the Archdiocese of Blantyre's ecclesiastical province.Archbishop Ziyaye had once been Bishop of Lilongwe when it was a diocese.