Raymond-Maria Tchidimbo

Raymond-Maria Tchidimbo CSSp , also Raymond-Marie , (born August 15, 1920 in Conakry ; † March 26, 2011 ) was a French - Guinean religious and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Conakry . He was a participant in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council . From 1970 to 1979 he was interned as a political prisoner in Camp Boiro .

Life

Raymond-Maria Tchidimbo joined the religious community of Spiritans and was ordained a priest on October 7, 1951 .

Pope John XXIII appointed him on March 10, 1962 Archbishop of Conakry. He was the first native archbishop of Conakry. The Archbishop of Dakar Hyacinthe Thiandoum donated him episcopal ordination on May 31 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Bernardin Gantin , Archbishop of Cotonou , and Bernard Cardinal Yago , Archbishop of Abidjan .

Raymond-Maria Tchidimbo was sentenced to lifelong forced labor on December 24, 1970 on the orders of the dictatorial ruling President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré . Tchidimbo was considered the only serious political rival and alleged agent of Germany. After eight years and eight months of imprisonment and torture in the notorious Camp Boiro camp , including the first four years in solitary confinement, he was released in 1979 and went into exile in Canada.

His resignation was granted on August 13, 1979 by Pope John Paul II . In 1984 he was a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

Individual evidence

↑ "Example for over 2000 political prisoners in Guinea" , accessed on March 30, 2011

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predecessor	Office	successor
Gérard-Paul-Louis-Marie de Milleville CSSp	Archbishop of Conakry 1962–1979	Robert Sarah

personal data
SURNAME	Tchidimbo, Raymond-Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tchidimbo, Raymond-Maria CSSp; Tchidimbo, Raymond-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Franco-Guinean religious, Archbishop of Conakry
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Conakry , Guinea
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 2011

[1] "Example for over 2000 political prisoners in Guinea" , accessed on March 30, 2011