AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Bangui

Vatican City – The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Father Joseph Samedi, S.J., until now director of the Pope Francis School Complex and superior of the Society of Jesus in Bangui, as coadjutor archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic.
Msgr. Joseph Samedi, S.J., was born on 20 December 1971 in Mongoumba, in the diocese of M’Baiki, Central African Republic. After his novitiate in Bafoussam, Cameroon, he studied philosophy in the Saint-Pierre Canisius Faculty of Philosophy in Kinshasa, he continued his Jesuit formation in Chad and, finally, studied theology in Brussels, Belgium. He was then awarded a licentiate in Church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome.
He was ordained a priest on 6 August 2006.
He has held the following offices: head of the Library and vicar of the French-speaking parish of Bangui , formator at the Saint-Marc National Major Seminary of Bangui , superior ad tempus of the Society of Jesus in Bangui and head of ongoing formation of the clergy of the archdiocese of Bangui , director of the Saint-Charles Lwanga College in Sarh, Chad , and to date, director of the Pope Francis School Complex and superior of the Society of Jesus in Bangui .

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