Lucien Monsi-Agboka

Lucien Monsi - Agboka ( born June 3, 1926 in Agoué, Benin, † April 27, 2008 in Cotonou, Benin ) was the first Bishop of Abomey in Benin.

Life

Lucien Monsi - Agboka attended from 1943 to 1954, the minor seminary in Ouidah and studied theology and philosophy in Rome, where he received the sacrament of Holy Orders for the Archdiocese of Cotonou on 21 December 1957. He initially worked as a curate in Bohicon and taught from 1960 to 1962 at the Collège Père Aupiais in Cotonou. His appointment as rector came before his appointment as bishop.

1963 Pope Paul VI appointed him. Bishop of the Diocese of Abomey in the south of Benin, in the department of Zou, whose capital is Abomey. He received his episcopal consecration on 21 July 1963, the then Archbishop of Cotonou and later Cardinal Bernardin Gantin; Co-consecrators were Bernard Yago, Bishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and later cardinal, and Robert - Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh - Anyron, Bishop of Lome, Togo. 2002 his resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II.

Lucien Monsi - Agboka was an extremely popular bishop, intermediaries between the government and the population in Benin and initiator of important social reforms in Benin. In his honor, a requiem was held with great participation of politicians of Benin as Raphiou Toukourou, Valentin Agbo and others.