Coffi Roger Anoumou attended the minor seminaries of Djimè near Abomey and Parakou.

From 2007 to 2011, he pursued studies in Rome and earned a degree in educational psychology and development from the Salesian Pontifical University.

[1] After a year as an educator in the boys' seminaries of Parakou and Djimé, he returned to Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in psychopedagogy from 2012 to 2015.

From 2021, he served as the Regent of the Saint-Paul Seminary in Djimè and as the parish priest of the Technical High School in Bohicon.

He was ordained on 13 May 2023 at the Cathedral of Saint Peter Claver in Lokossa, by Mark Gérard Milles, Apostolic Nuncio to Benin and Togo, Victor Agbanou, outgoing Bishop of Lokossa, and Martin Adjou Moumouni, Bishop of N'dali.