Suffragan diocese Yopougon, Côte d'Ivoire
Diocese of Yopougon
Yopugonen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese covering the populous Yopougon district of Abidjan, 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 Saint-Andre in Yopougon. Bishop Jean Salomon Lezoutie leads the diocese, appointed in 2015 per the Holy See press bulletin cited by Wikipedia.
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- Established
- 1982
- Catholics
- 950,000
- Priests
- 186
- Territory
- 7,367 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Jean Salomon Lezoutie
- Born
- 8 April 1958
- Birthplace
- Yopougon
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The cathedral
Cathedrale Saint-Andre, Yopougon stands in Yopougon, 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.
History
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yopougon (Latin: Yopugonen(sis)) is seated in the city of Yopougon and belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire.