Archdiocese of Gagnoa
| Archdiocese of Gagnoa | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Ivory Coast |
| Diocesan bishop | Joseph Yapo Aké |
| founding | 1956 |
| surface | 21,951 km² |
| Parishes | 34 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Residents | 1,425,000 (December 31, 2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Catholics | 144,000 (December 31, 2006 / AP2007 ) |
| proportion of | 10.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 112 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Religious priest | 2 (December 31, 2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,263 |
| Friars | 10 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Religious sisters | 53 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | French |
| cathedral | Cathédrale Sainte-Anne |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Daloa Diocese of Man Diocese of San Pedro-en-Côte d'Ivoire |
The Archdiocese of Gagnoa ( Latin : Archidioecesis Gagnoaensis ) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese based in Gagnoa on the Ivory Coast . It includes the Sud-Bandama and Fromager regions .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the diocese with the bull Sanctissimum ac gravissimum on June 25, 1956 from cession of territory by the diocese Daloa and it was subordinated to the archdiocese of Abidjan as a suffragan .
On October 23, 1989, it lost part of its territory in favor of the establishment of the diocese of San Pedro-en-Côte d'Ivoire . With the Apostolic Constitution Cum in Litore Eburneo on December 19, 1994 it was raised to the rank of metropolitan archbishopric .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Gagnoa
- Jean Marie Etrillard SMA (July 4, 1956 - March 11, 1971)
- Noël Kokora-Tekry (March 11, 1971 - December 19, 1994)
Archbishops of Gagnoa
- Noël Kokora-Tekry (December 19, 1994 - May 15, 2001)
- Jean-Pierre Kutwa (May 15, 2001 - May 2, 2006, then Archbishop of Abidjan )
- Barthélémy Djabla (July 21, 2006 - September 15, 2008)
- Joseph Yapo Ake (since November 22, 2008)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest |
Catholics per priest |
male | Female | |||
| 1969 | 71,804 | 442.144 | 16.2 | 84 | 48 | 36 | 854 | 47 | 41 | 18th | |
| 1980 | 111,000 | 987,000 | 11.2 | 43 | 14th | 29 | 2,581 | 36 | 61 | 22nd | |
| 1990 | 102,666 | 750,000 | 13.7 | 41 | 35 | 6th | 2,504 | 15th | 45 | 17th | |
| 1999 | 128,000 | 1,157,000 | 11.1 | 64 | 61 | 3 | 2,000 | 17th | 61 | 26th | |
| 2000 | 122.032 | 1,091,046 | 11.2 | 69 | 63 | 6th | 1,768 | 16 | 50 | 29 | |
| 2001 | 127,887 | 1,141,769 | 11.2 | 72 | 65 | 7th | 1,776 | 18th | 49 | 29 | |
| 2004 | 133.920 | 1,362,694 | 9.8 | 87 | 80 | 7th | 1,539 | 18th | 49 | 30th | |
| 2006 | 144,000 | 1,425,000 | 10.1 | 114 | 112 | 2 | 1,263 | 10 | 53 | 34 | |
See also
Web links
- Entry on Archdiocese of Gagnoa on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Archdiocese of Gagnoa on gcatholic.org (English)