Diocese of Agboville
Agbovillen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Agboville, Côte d'Ivoire
Latin-rite diocese in southern Cote d'Ivoire, erected on 14 October 2006 from the Diocese of Yopougon. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Abidjan and its seat is the Cathedrale Saint Jean-Marie Vianney in Agboville. The see is vacant following the transfer of Bishop Alexis Youlo Touabli to San-Pedro on 22 October 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 October 2006
- Latin
- Agbovillen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000609
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 797,580
- Population
- 800,256
- Catholic share
- 99.7%
- Priests
- 117
- Catholics per priest
- 6,817
- Extent
- 11,301 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 71
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Assandé Darius Ekou
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
Cathedrale Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, Agboville stands in Agboville, 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 Abidjan
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Abidjan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AbidjanAbidjan
- Diocese of Grand-BassamGrand-Bassam
- Diocese of YopougonYopougon
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Agboville, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Agboville (Latin: Agbovillen(sis)) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- B.P. 122, Quartier Sambregnan, Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire
- Telephone
- 01.40.65.05.95/6
- [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].