Father Carlo Cencio was born in 1939 in Italy. He came in the Central African Republic in 1971. On December 16, 1971, Fathers Nicolò Ellena, Marco Conte, Agostino Mazzocchi and Carlo Cencio arrived in Bozoum in the parish of San Michele to help the Capuchin friars and then succeed them. This was the beginning of the Mission in Central Africa of the Discalced Carmelites of the Genoa Province. In 1973 Fr. Carlo founded the parish of the Child Jesus in Baoro. In 1991 he returned to Italy.