Diocese of Banfora
Banforen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Banfora, Burkina Faso
The Diocese of Banfora in Burkina Faso was erected in 1998 from territory of the Diocese of Bobo-Dioulasso and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso. Bishop Lucas Kalfa Sanou has led it since its founding.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 June 1998
- Latin
- Banforen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000809
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 37,540
- Priests
- 30
- Catholics per priest
- 1,251
- Extent
- 18,917 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Lucas Kalfa Sanou
- Born
- 4 September 1951
- Birthplace
- Dugona
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Saint Peter Cathedral stands in Banfora, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Bobo-Dioulasso
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Bobo-DioulassoBobo-Dioulasso
- Diocese of DiébougouDiébougou
- Diocese of DédougouDédougou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Burkina Faso, the city of Banfora gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Banforensis) that belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bobo-Dioulasso.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 78, Banfora, Burkina Faso
- Telephone
- 20.91.03.97
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].