Ouesso, 28 May, 2025 / 8:40 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Mons. Brice Armand Ibombo, who has been serving as Vice-Rector of Émile Cardinal Biayenda National Major Seminary in the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville) the Local Ordinary of the country’s Catholic Diocese of Ouesso.
The appointment of Mons. Ibombo for Ouesso Diocese that has been vacant since the January 2024 transfer of Archbishop Gélase Armel Kemai to the Catholic Archdiocese of Owando was made public by the Holy See Press Office on Wednesday, May 28.
In a remark issued shortly after his appointment, the Bishop-elect says, “I did not expect it, but I bless the Lord who has put his hand on me. It is an unworthy servant that I am.”
“I intend to truly get to know this Diocese in depth – its people, their faith, their daily realities, and especially their lived experience of faith,” Mons. Ibombo said.
Born in November 1973 in Abala in the Catholic Diocese of Gamboma, the Bishop-elect was ordained a Priest in August 2004 after completing Philosophical and Theological studies at the Mon. Georges-Firmin Singha Major Seminary in Congo Brazzaville and Concordia-Pordenone Major Seminary in Italy, respectively.
