Urbain Mbenga Mpiem Ley is a leader in the

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. He is the president of the church's

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Biography

Mbenga was born in

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. He emigrated to the

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(DRC) and was educated at a school in

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and at universities in

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. Mbenga went on to teach high school in

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and was a high school principal in Kinshasa. He later became the head of the geography department at the Université Pédagogique Nationale in the DRC. As president of the First Quorum of the Seventy, Mbenga oversees the Community of Christ's Africa and Haiti Mission Field.

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Community of Christ: Who are the seventy?
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