Diocese of Manga

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Diocese of Manga
Basic data
Country Burkina Faso
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Ouagadougou
Diocesan bishop Sedis vacancy
Emeritus diocesan bishop Wenceslas Compaoré
founding 1997
surface 9,870 km²
Parishes 6 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Residents 627,815 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Catholics 123,224 (2013 / AP 2014 )
proportion of 19.6%
Diocesan priest 20 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Catholics per priest 6.161
Friars 10 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Religious sisters 21 (2013 / AP 2014 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Notre Dame de l'Assomption

The Diocese of Manga ( Latin Dioecesis Mangana , French Diocèse de Manga ) is in Burkina Faso situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Manga .

Its territory includes the Center-Sud region with the provinces of Boulgou , Bazèga and Zoundwéogo and the province of Nahouri in the Center-Est region . Besides the cathedral parish in Manga (province of Zoundwéogo) there are parishes in Kombissiri and Toécé (Bazèga), Zabré (Boulgou), Pô (Nahouri) and Gogo and Gomboussougou (Zoundwéogo).

history

The Diocese of Manga was established on January 2, 1997 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution De cunctis from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Koupéla and the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou as a suffragan .

Bishops of Manga

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. De cunctis , AAS 89 (1997), n.7, p. 437f.