Inácio Saure was born on 2 March 1960 in Balama, Mozambique. After the outbreak of civil war in Mozambique, he entered the Consolata Seminary in Maputo. He attended courses in philosophy and theology in the seminary of St. Augustine in Matola from 1990 to 1992, and continued his theological studies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC) at the Superior Institute of Theology of St. Eugene of Mazenod in Kinshasa, earning his bachelor’s degree in sacred theology in 1998. He made his first vows as a member of the Consolata Mission Institute on 7 January 1995 and his perpetual vows on 15 May 1998. He was ordained a priest on 8 December 1998.