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Bishop Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi

Bishop of Berbérati

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Born
Oct 9, 1964 Kadjebi-Akan, Ghana
Nationality
Central African Republic
Ordained priest
Jul 12, 1997
Ordained bishop
Jul 22, 2012 Central African Republic
Appointed
Jul 22, 2012
Principal consecrator
Fernando Filoni
Co-consecrators
Jude Thaddeus Okolo Edouard Mathos
Motto
Deus Caritas Est

Archbishop-elect Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi, S.M.A., was born on 9 October 1964 in Kadjebi-Akan, diocese of Jasikan, Volta Region, Ghana. After carrying out his national civil service, he entered the Society of African Missions. He then studied philosophy in the diocesan seminary of Accra, Ghana, and carried out the year of spirituality in Cavali, Benin, and his pastoral apprenticeship in Bèlèmboké in the diocese of Berbérati. He went on to complete his studies in theology at the interdiocesan major seminary of Anyama, Cote d’Ivoire, and gave his perpetual vows on 29 June 1996. He was ordained a priest on 12 July 1997. He has held the following offices: parish vicar in Berbérati (1997-1999), parish priest in Berbérati and director of development projects for the Pygmy People; member of the Episcopal Council and head of the management of pharmaceutical products, and assistant to the regional superior (1999-2005); superior of the Formation House in Bangui and member of the diocesan Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants, as well as regional superior of the Fathers of the Society of African Missions, re-elected in 2010 for a second term (2007-2012). He was appointed bishop of Berbérati on 14 May 2012 and received episcopal consecration on the following 22 July.