Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso

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Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso
Basic data
Country Burkina Faso
Diocesan bishop Paul Yemboaro Ouédraogo
Emeritus diocesan bishop Anselme Titianma Sanon
founding 1927
surface 24,415 km²
Parishes 16 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 1,766,329 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 212,000 (2015 / AP 2016 )
proportion of 12%
Diocesan priest 78 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 27 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 2,019
Friars 106 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 222 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Lourdes
address 01 BP 312
Bobo-Dioulasso 01
Burkina Faso
Suffragan dioceses Banfora
Dédougou
Diébougou
Gaoua
Nouna

The Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso ( Latin Archidioecesis Bobodiulassensis , French Archidiocèse de Bobo-Dioulasso ) is an archdiocese in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta ) in West Africa . It includes the dioceses of Dédougou , Diébougou , Banfora and Nouna . The seat of the diocese is Bobo-Dioulasso , the second largest city in the state of Burkina Faso.

history

Pope Pius XI founded the Apostolic Prefecture Bobo-Dioulasso on December 15, 1927 with the Breve Expedit from the Apostolic Vicariates Bamako and Ouagadougou . With the bull Ad Christi regnum , Pius XI. on March 9, 1937 the prefecture to the vicariate, on December 14, 1955 Pius XII. with the bull Dum tantis to the diocese and finally John Paul II on December 5, 2000 with the bull Afrorum ecclesiales to the archdiocese.

Ordinaries

Web links

  • Notre-Dame de Lourdes cathedral in 2007