Dieudonné Yougbaré

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Dieudonné Yougbaré (born February 16, 1917 in Koupéla , Burkina Faso ; † November 4, 2011 ) was a Burkinabe clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Koupéla . He was the first indigenous bishop in West Africa.

Life

Dieudonné Yougbaré attended the Catholic School of Koupéla from 1923 to 1928 and then the Small Seminary in Pabré and the Large Seminary in Koumi . He was ordained a priest on April 8, 1945 . He was trained as a teacher and taught in Pabré. After his vicariate he became pastor in Ouagadougou in 1948 , later in Pabré. In 1954 he was proposed as bishop by Bishop Marcel Lefebvre , the apostolic envoy for the French-speaking areas of Africa.

Pope Pius XII appointed him on February 29, 1956 first bishop of the newly established diocese of Koupéla . The Archbishop of Lyon , Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier , donated him episcopal ordination on July 8, 1956 ; Co - consecrators were André-Joseph-Prosper Dupont MAfr , Bishop in Bobo-Dioulasso , and Emile-Joseph Socquet MAfr, Senior Archbishop of Ouagadougou .

Dieudonné Yougbaré was the council father of all four session periods of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. He founded a partnership between the dioceses of Koupéla and Lyon . On June 1, 1995, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

Dieudonné Yougbaré was blind from onchocerciasis (river blindness).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Décès de Mgr Dieudonné YOUGBARE" , Le Faso, November 4, 2011
  2. ^ "Mort de Mgr Yougbaré, premier évêque originaire d'Afrique de l'Ouest" , la-croix.com, November 4, 2011
  3. ^ "Le premier évêque autochtone de l'Afrique de l'ouest est mort" , koaci.com, November 4, 2011
  4. ↑ The great rivers eat our eyes ( Memento of August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Light for the World , March 4, 2009
predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Koupéla
1956–1995 		Séraphin François Rouamba
personal data
SURNAME Yougbaré, Dieudonné
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burkinabe clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Koupéla
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Koupéla , Burkina Faso
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2011