Diébougou diocese

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Diébougou diocese
Map Diébougou diocese
Basic data
Country Burkina Faso
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso
Diocesan bishop Raphaël Kusiélé Dabiré
Emeritus diocesan bishop Jean-Baptiste Kpiéle Somé
Vicar General Bruno Méda Kusiélé
founding 1968
surface 7,973 km²
Parishes 14 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 384,555 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 155,770 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 40.5%
Diocesan priest 81 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 5 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,811
Friars 9 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 67 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul

The diocese Diébougou ( Latin Dioecesis Diebuguensis , French Diocèse de Diébougou ) is in Burkina Faso situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Diébougou .

history

The Diébougou diocese was on October 18, 1968 by Pope Paul VI. Established with the Apostolic Constitution Evangelicae voces from cessions of territory of the Diocese of Bobo-Dioulasso and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou as a suffragan .

On December 5, 2000, the Diébougou diocese was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso as a suffragan. The Diébougou diocese gave up on November 30, 2011 parts of its territory to establish the Gaoua diocese .

Bishops of Diébougou

See also

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Evangelicae voces , AAS 61 (1969), n.4, p. 229ff.