Vatican City, Vatican - May 2020 - On May 30, Pope Francis erected the Ecclesiastical Province of Pointe-Noire (Republic of the Congo), elevating the Diocese in question to a Metropolitan Church; it will have the Dioceses of Dolisie and Nkayi as suffragan Churches. He appointed its first Metropolitan Archbishop Msgr. Miguel Ángel Olaverri Arroniz, SDB, current Bishop of Pointe-Noire. The new Ecclesiastical Province of Pointe-Noire will have the Dioceses of Dolisie and Nkayi as suffragans. It will also be called Ecclesiastical Province of the Southwest. In the photo Msgr. Olaverri for the 50th anniversary of the Salesian parish of Pointe-Noire (2 July 2017).