# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-appora
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:35:10.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-appora"
name: "Richard Appora"
slug: "richard-appora"
description: "Bertrand Guy Richard Appora-Ngalanibé O.P. is a Central African Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Bambari, in the Central African Republic, since 28 April 2017. Before that, from 10 December 2016 until 28 April 2017, he served as Coadjutor Bishop of Bambari. He succeeded Bishop Edouard Mathos, the previous local ordinary, who died in office on 28 April 2017. Bertrand Guy Richard Appora-Ngalanibé served as a priest for his religious order from 1 November 2004 until 10 December 2016. He was appointed bishop by Pope Francis. His episcopal consecration took place onch 25 Mar 2017 at Bangui, by the hands of Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp., Archbishop of Bangui. He succeeded as the local ordinary on 28 April 2017, upon the death of Bishop Edouard Mathos. He is a professed member of the Order of Friars Preachers, a Catholic religious order."
tagline: "Central African Catholic prelate (born 1972)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Template-Bishop.svg/330px-Template-Bishop.svg.png"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1972-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump