Born November 2, 1952 to Bekoro in Logone Oriental, the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of N'Djamena, Monsignor Edmond Djitangar Goetbé is the fourth in a family of nine children. He did his primary education from 1960 to 1964 at the Saint Francis Regis School Maro in Moyen-Chari.
In 1964, Edmond Djitangar Goetbé entered the minor seminary of Saint Pierre Fort Archambault to complete its formation in 1971. The same year, he left his country for Cameroon where it comes from the 1971-1972 returned to seminary Inter-State Nkol-Bisson in Yaounde for the qualifying year. A year later, the young seminarian Chad deposited his luggage in Burkina Faso by entering in 1973, and for seven years in the major seminary of Saint Peter Claver Koumi.
At the end of his training in Burkina Faso, Archbishop Edmond Djitangar Goetbé back to Chad where he was ordained a priest on December 30, 1978. After ordination, he was appointed pastor of the parish of St. John the Baptist Koumogo where he served from 1978 to 1981.
Monsignor Djitangar leave again Chad to Rome. In the Italian capital, he studied from 1981 to 1985, the Biblical Sciences at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. At the end of his studies, he returns home and works at the major seminary of Saint Luc of Bakara 1985 to 1988 as professor of Scripture. Then he returned to Sarh where he was appointed director of Catechists of Rakena Diocesan Training Centre (Danamadji) from 1988 to 1990. He was then Vicar General of the Diocese of Sarh from 1990 to 1991.
On 7 December 1991 Rome appoints the young priest Djitangar Bishop of Sarh. He will be ordained to the episcopate in Sarh Cathedral parish by His Eminence, Cardinal Tomko assisted by Bishop Henry Veniat and Bishop Mathias Ngarteri on 2 February 1992. In October 2004, Bishop Edmond Djitangar Goetbé appointed special secretary of the synod second African Churches (Rome).
Currently, Monsignor Djitangar is the President of the Episcopal Commission for Social Communications Media Commission and transmission of the faith within the Episcopal Conference of Chad. Another decree of Pope makes him since October 9, Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Sarh.
