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The see of Elisabethville (modern Lubumbashi) in Belgian Congo was established as '''Archdiocese of Central Africa and All the Equator''' on [[November 28]], 1958 by the Patriarchate of Alexandria with [[Archbishop]] Kyprianos as the first ruling hierarch. He was succeeded by Abp. Nicodemus. In 1977, Abp. Timothy (Kontomeros) moved the see to Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire (modern Congo), and became the ruling [[bishop]] of the [[missionary]] activities of the diocese until his repose in 2003.
In 2003, [[Archimandrite]] [[Ignatios (Madenlides) of Pentapolis|Ignatios (Madenlidis)]], who had been a missionary in Kananga for twenty years, was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] as the Archbishop of Central Africa. On [[November 11]] , 2006, His Eminence founded the [[Archdiocese of Katanga|Diocese of Kolwezi]] in Congo under his omophorion. After his resignation in 2010, Archimandrite [[Nikiforos (Mikragiannanitis) of Central Africa|Nikiforos (Mikragiannanitis)]] was consecrated on [[October 24]], 2010 and enthroned in the Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas in Kinshasa on [[December 19]], 2010.<ref>[http://pa-imka.org/index.php/en/archbishopric-en/history-en History of the Archdiocese]</ref> On November 24, 2015, following the new administrative changes in the Congolese provinces by the government and the elevation of the see of Kolwezi to an independent archbishopric, the archdiocese received its current name.
==Ruling Bishops==