Constantin Guirma

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Constantin Guirma (born February 5, 1920 in Kaya , Burkina Faso , † August 6, 2010 in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso) was Bishop of Kaya .

family

Constantin Guirma, the son of a nurse, was the oldest of eleven children. Two more siblings followed in church offices, his brother Rene Bélemsida OP and his sister joined a women's order ( Sister Blanche ). His brother Frédéric Guirma was ambassador to the USA and permanent representative to the United Nations.

Life

Guirma received on 19 May 1946 the Apostolic Vicar Joanny Thévenoud in Ouagadougou , the ordination . He was first vicar in Koupéla , then pastor in Tenkodogo . In 1954 he founded the parish in Ouargaye and in 1956 became pastor in Pabré . From 1960 to 1962 Constantin Guirma was the chaplain of immigrants from Côte d'Ivoire . In 1962 the parish in Kologh Naba followed . In 1967 he became a priest of the Saint-Michel mission station in Koléa, Conakry , in Guinea , shortly thereafter Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on July 26, 1969. Bishop of Kaya and donated him on 1 August of the same year during his first visit to Africa in Kampala , Uganda , personally episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were Sergio Pignedoli , Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , and Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga , Archbishop of Kampala .

On March 9, 1996, John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

Constantin Guirma was buried in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Kaya after a requiem in the Cathedral of Ouagadougou .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mgr Constantin Guirma: L'évêque émérite de Kaya est parti , Le Faso, August 9, 2010
  2. ↑ Constantin Guirma a tiré sa révérence  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), Sidwaya, 10 August 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sidwaya.bf
predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Kaya
1969–1996 		Jean-Baptiste Tiendrebeogo
personal data
SURNAME Guirma, Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burkinabe clergyman, Bishop of Kaya
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaya , Burkina Faso
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2010
Place of death Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso