Diocese of Atakpamé

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Diocese of Atakpamé
Basic data
Ecclesiastical province Togo
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Lomé
Diocesan bishop Sedis vacancy
founding 1964
surface 13,900 km²
Parishes 34 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 903,540 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 327,631 (2006)
proportion of 36.3%
Diocesan priest 72 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 6 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 4,200
Friars 13 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 92 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Notre-Dame de la Trinité, Atakpamé

The diocese Atakpamé ( Latin Dioecesis Atakpamensis ) is a diocese in Togo , the bishopric is the cathedral in Atakpamé . The diocese comprises the Togolese prefectures of Ogou, Blitta, Est-Mono, Amou and Wawa in the north of the Plateaux region with 13,453 km² and 700,000 inhabitants, of which approx. 37% are Roman Catholic. In 2006, 56 diocesan priests and 1 religious priest worked in the 29 parishes of the archdiocese .

history

The first mission in Atakpamé was established in 1862, but abandoned in 1887 after followers of the local fetish cult poisoned the priests. In 1892 Steyler missionaries reopened the mission. On September 29, 1964, the Atakpamé diocese was divided from the Lomé Archdiocese . The first bishop, Berard Oguki-Atakpah, had to resign on April 10, 1976 after public criticism of the Gnassingbé Eyadémas regime , and the Notre-Dame de la Trinité cathedral was devastated by the military on May 1. The newly named Bishop Philippe Fanoko Kossi Kpodzro was denied access to Atakpamé until 1980. From 1990 Kpodzro chaired a national conference called under public pressure, which declared its sovereignty and interrupted the Eyadéma dictatorship, Kpodzro was appointed Archbishop of Lomé on December 17, 1992 and was President of the Togolese Parliament until February 1994.

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  1. ↑ www.catholic-hierarchy.org , as of 2006