Philippe Ouédraogo

Coat of arms of Philippe Cardinal Ouédraogo

Philippe Nakellentuba Cardinal Ouédraogo (born January 25, 1945 in Konéan , Burkina Faso ) is Archbishop of Ouagadougou and President of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar .

Life

Philippe Ouédraogo received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Kaya on July 14, 1973 . From 1973 to 1978 he was vicar of the cathedral there before he went to Rome to continue his studies. In 1983 Ouédraogo returned to Kaya. From 1989 to 1994 he was vicar general of the diocese of Kaya.

On July 5, 1996, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Ouahigouya . The Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré , donated him episcopal ordination on November 23 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Limoges , Léon Soulier , and the Bishop Emeritus of Kaya, Constantin Guirma . From 2001 to 2007 he was President of the Bishops' Conferences of Burkina Faso and Niger. On May 13, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . to the Archbishop of Ouagadougou. The inauguration took place on June 13 of the same year.

In the solemn consistory of February 22, 2014, Pope Francis accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino in the college of cardinals .

Philippe Ouédraogo was treated in April 2020 after a positive test for COVID-19 in the hospital in Ouagadougou and was discharged as healthy.

Memberships

Cardinal Ouédraogo is a member of the following organizations of the Roman Curia :

Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (since 2014)
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (since 2014)
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments (since 2016)

Web links

Ouédraogo, Philippe. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed March 23, 2014.
Entry on Philippe Ouédraogo on catholic-hierarchy.org
Entry on Philippe Ouédraogo on gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) e Nomina del Successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, May 13, 2009, accessed March 22, 2015 (Italian).
^ Concistori ordinario pubblico per la creazione dei nuovi Cardinali: Assegnazione dei Titoli o delle Diaconie ai nuovi Porporati. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, February 22, 2014, accessed March 22, 2015 (Italian).
^ Fallce el primer obispo africano a causa de la pandemia. Religion Digital, April 15, 2020, accessed April 15, 2020 (Spanish).
^ ^A ^b Nomina di Cardinali Membri dei Dicasteri e degli organismi della Curia Romana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, May 22, 2014, accessed March 22, 2015 (Italian).
^ Nomina di Membri della Congregazione per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , October 28, 2016, accessed October 28, 2016 (Italian).

predecessor	Office	successor
Marius Ouédraogo	Bishop of Ouahigouya 1996-2009	Justin Kientega
Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré	Archbishop of Ouagadougou since 2009	---

personal data
SURNAME	Ouédraogo, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ouédraogo, Cardinal Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Burkinabe clergyman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ouagadougou
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Konéan , Burkina Faso

[1] Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) e Nomina del Successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, May 13, 2009, accessed March 22, 2015 (Italian).

[2] Concistori ordinario pubblico per la creazione dei nuovi Cardinali: Assegnazione dei Titoli o delle Diaconie ai nuovi Porporati. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, February 22, 2014, accessed March 22, 2015 (Italian).

[3] Fallce el primer obispo africano a causa de la pandemia. Religion Digital, April 15, 2020, accessed April 15, 2020 (Spanish).

[Bulletin-2014-05-22-4] A ^b Nomina di Cardinali Membri dei Dicasteri e degli organismi della Curia Romana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, May 22, 2014, accessed March 22, 2015 (Italian).

[5] Nomina di Membri della Congregazione per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , October 28, 2016, accessed October 28, 2016 (Italian).