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Methodist pastor elected to interdenominational leadership in Congo

Gabriel Yemba Unda, the first United Methodist bishop of the East Congo Episcopal Area, has been elected provincial president of the Church of Christ in the Congo in the Congolese district of Maniema.

The CCC is a union of 95 of the country’s Protestant denominations.

Unda—who also is the moderator of the National Synod of the Church of Christ in the Congo—obtained 66 out of 91 votes in the elections. He will preside over various denominations of the Protestant churches in Maniema for the next six years. Unda succeeds Bishop Joseph Bitingo Lusambya, who died in April 2021.