PORTLAND, Maine – Bishop Robert Deeley has announced, effective April 1, Fr. Simon Assogba, SMA has been appointed parochial vicar at Parish of the Precious Blood (Holy Rosary Church, Caribou; Sacred Heart Church, Caribou; Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Presque Isle; Our Lady of the Lake Church, Portage; St. Catherine Church, Washburn; St. Denis Church, Fort Fairfield; St. Joseph Church, Mars Hill; St. Louis Church, Limestone; St. Mark Church, Ashland; St. Theresa Church, Stockholm).
He joins Fr. Anthony Korir, SMA, who was also appointed parochial vicar of the parish in February. Fr. Assogba and Fr. Korir are members of the Society of African Missions, an international community of missionaries founded in France in 1856. The community includes priests, brothers, lay men, and lay women hailing from five continents. The American Province of SMA was established in 1941 and is headquartered in Tenafly, New Jersey.
Fr. Assogba was ordained to the priesthood on August 15, 2012, in the Diocese of Cotonou in Benin, Africa. Since his ordination, he has served as a bursar at a house of formation in Ibadan, Nigeria; superior of a house of formation in Lomé, Togo; and mission assistant in Benin.
