Diocese of Grand-Bassam
Bassam Maioris
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
Latin-rite diocese in southeastern coastal Cote d'Ivoire, erected on 8 June 1982 from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Abidjan. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Abidjan and its seat is the Cathedrale Sacre Coeur in Grand-Bassam. Bishop Raymond Ahoua, F.D.P., leads the diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 June 1982
- Latin
- Bassam Maioris
- Annuario code
- 001001516
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 230,841
- Population
- 962,886
- Catholic share
- 24.0%
- Priests
- 115
- Catholics per priest
- 2,007
- Extent
- 8,354 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 28
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
- Raymond Ahoua, F.D.P.
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 Sacre Coeur, Grand-Bassam stands in Grand-Bassam, 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 AgbovilleAgboville
- Diocese of YopougonYopougon
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Grand-Bassam gives its seat to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand-Bassam (Latin: Bassam Maioris), part of the ecclesiastical province of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 57, Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
- Telephone
- e fax 21.30.15.22
- [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].