Paul Zoungrana
Paul Cardinal Zoungrana MAfr (born September 3, 1917 in Ouagadougou , Upper Senegal and Niger , today Burkina Faso , † June 4, 2000 Ouagadougou) was Archbishop of Ouagadougou in the West African state of Burkina Faso.
Life
Paul Zoungrana entered the minor seminary in Pabré in 1925, and in 1935 he moved to the major seminary in Koumi with Bobo Dioulasso. After studying philosophy and Catholic theology , he received the sacrament of ordination on May 2, 1942 and entered the order of the Africa missionaries ( White Fathers ). After the novitiate in Maison Carrée in Algeria, he made his profession on September 24, 1948 . From 1949 to 1952 he completed a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and studied social sciences at the Institut Catholique de Paris . In 1954 he returned to Africa and taught at the Koumi Seminary until 1959, and in 1959 and 1960 he was director of the Social Information Center in Ouagadougou.
On April 5, 1960 Pope John XXIII appointed him . to the Archbishop of Ouagadougou and ordained him episcopal on May 8th of the same year ; Co- consecrators were the bishop emeritus of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence , Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie and Auxiliary Bishop Fulton John Sheen from New York .
Paul Zoungrana participated in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 . On February 22, 1965, Pope Paul VI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Camillo de Lellis in the college of cardinals . He resigned the leadership of the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou in 1995 for reasons of age. He died on June 4, 2000 in Ouagadougou and was buried in the local cathedral .
Zoungrana was concerned with embedding the Christian faith in traditional African rites, and this was the spirit in which his funeral ceremony took place.
Web links
- Entry on Paul Zoungrana on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- CV and pictures of Zoungranas (French)
- Paul Cardinal Zoungrana in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Emile-Joseph Socquet MAfr (1955–1960; Vicar Apostolic since 1921) |
Archbishop of Ouagadougou 1960–1995 |
Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré (1995-2009) |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zoungrana, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zoungrana, Paul MAfr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Burkinabe chaplain, Archbishop of Ouagadougou and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ouagadougou , Upper Senegal and Niger |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 2000 |
| Place of death | Ouagadougou , Upper Senegal and Niger , today Burkina Faso |