Very Reverend Paul VI Karenga .
Reverend Dr. Paul VI Sidlawinde Karenga, born in Burkina Faso, West Africa, has served as parochial vicar at Saint Mark the Evangelist Church in the Archdiocese of Miami, Florida, from 2015 to 2023. In June 2023, he was appointed Administrator of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Parish in Deerfield Beach.
Education background
- Father Paul VI Karenga obtained a license in Theology from Saint John Baptist Major Seminary in Ouagadougou and was ordained to the priesthood in 2002 in Koupela, Burkina Faso. From 2004 to 2012, he was assigned Secretary to the Archbishop’s Office in Koupela.
- Committed to serving the most vulnerable, he earned his LL.M. in 2014 and, in 2020, his Juris Science Doctorate Degree in Intercultural Human Rights from St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida. He is the published author of the book “A West African Model to Address Human Trafficking,” released by Springer Nature in 2022, which provides the Catholic teaching guiding principles to address modern-day slavery.
Linguistic abilities
In addition to fluency in Moore, his mother tongue, French and English, Father Paul VI speaks Italian and can read German and Latin, and is currently learning Spanish.