I built a cathedral in the land of Islam Exclusive interview with the just-retired Bishop Henri Coudray, a Jesuit missionary who spent the last 19 years as head of the tiny Catholic population in Mongo, Chad
The future bishop, Father Philippe Abbo, is of the same ethnic group - the Dadjo - as Saint Josephine Bakhita, the former slave who became a nun and was canonized by Pope John Paul II. (Photo by AMAURY HAUCHARD/AFP)
Bishop Henri Coudray is a French-born Jesuit who has lived in the north-central African country of Chad since the 1960s.
And for the last 19 years he s been the chief spiritual leader of Catholics in the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo.