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ANNOUNCEMENT

It is announced that on 24th October 2017, during the morning session of the Holy Synod of the ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, that it was unanimously decided following a proposal by its Venerable Primate, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II, to elevate the Holy Diocese of Brazzaville and Gabon to a Holy Metropolis.

Therefore, the new title of this Ecclesiastical Province of the Apostolic and Patriarchal Throne is: "Holy Metropolis of Brazzaville and Gabon" and its Shepherd bears the title: "His Eminence Metropolitan of Congo-Brazzaville and Gabon, Most Honoured and Exarch of Atlantic Africa”.