• Years in the Charge of
    Augustinians
  • Community House of the
    Mission
  • Brothers Affiliated to
    the Mission
  • History of The Benin Republic Mission

St. Joseph Kpatalokoli was an outstation of Saint Francois d'Assissse Bohicon. On Sunday the 1st May, his Lordship Bishop Eugene Cyril Houndekon blessed the Tabernacle, and on the 9th of June 2011 the outstation was given the status of a parish. The parish was later entrusted to the Augustinians and on the 1st of July 2013 Fr. Denis Zangshida,OSA was installed as the second Parish priest of St. Joseph's Kpatalokoli, he worked with Fr. Dozie Iwuh. In the year 2017 Fr. Gregory Obih, OSA of blessed memory became the second Augustinian to work as the parish priest, he worked with Fr. Chimaobi Nwosu, OSA, they were later joined in the mission by Fr. Emmanuel Ighalo, OSA. The transfer of 2021 January brought Fr. Jude Oyudo, OSA and Fr. Moses Yaratsada, OSA (Parish priest) to the mission. Fr. Jude was transferred in June of that same year (2021) and in June of 2022 Fr. Gabriel C.J. Yashim, OSA came to the mission.

The parish church was built in 1990 and the parish has the population of about 400 to 450 parishioners, children and women constitute about 85 to 90% of the total population. We celebrate three masses on Sundays, 7am in French and Fon, 9am in English and 6pm in French.

The foundation of the parish house was placed by the Bishop on the same day the tabernacle was installed. And until the coming of the Augustinians the house was still at the lintel level. Thanks to the provincial and the province the parish house was completed in 2016.

  • Community Houses of the
    Mission
  • SAINT FRANCOIS D'ASSISSSE BOHICO
    Saint Francois d'Assissse Bohicon
Friars in Charge of the Mission

The Benin Republic Mission

St Augustine, Pray For Us

Saint Francois d'Assissse Bohicon, Benin Republic
FOUNDATION: 9.6.2011
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