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Monday, 1 June 2020

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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 May 2020, the Holy Father erected the Ecclesiastical Province of Owando, Republic of the Congo, elevating it to a Metropolitan Church; and assigning as suffragan Churches the Dioceses of Impfondo and Ouesso, and appointed Bishop Victor Abagna Mossa of the same see as metropolitan Archbishop.
The new Ecclesiastical Province of Owanda in the Republic of the Congo will have as suffragans the dioceses of Impfondo and Ouesso. It will also be called the Ecclesiastical Province of the North. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 1/6/2020)

Attachment to the article

Data relating to the dioceses of the new Ecclesiastical Province