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Suffragan diocese Berbérati, Central African Republic

Archdiocese of Berbérati

Berberaten(sis)

The Archdiocese of Berberati is a Latin Catholic metropolitan see in southwestern Central African Republic, originating as an apostolic prefecture in 1940 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Leo XIV in 2025. Its suffragans are Bossangoa, Bouar, and Mbaiki.

On the map

Esri
Berbérati, Central African Republic, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1940
Catholics
214,000
Priests
37
Territory
44,000 km²

Parishes and churches

1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi, S.M.A.

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart stands in Berbérati, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

In the western Central African Republic, Berbérati serves as the Metropolitan See of its own ecclesiastical province; the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berbérati (Latin: Berberaten(sis)) nonetheless remains under the authority of the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The episcopal see is the cathedral in Berbérati, in the Mambéré-Kadéï Prefecture (southwest, formerly Haute-Sangha), a city that also keeps a former cathedral dedicated to Saint Anna.