Diocese of Diébougou
Diebuguen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Diébougou, Burkina Faso
The Diocese of Diébougou is a Latin Church diocese in southwestern Burkina Faso, established on 18 October 1968 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso. Der Raphaël Kusiélé Dabiré has been its bishop since 2006.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 October 1968
- Latin
- Diebuguen(sis)
- Patron
- Saints Peter and Paul
- Annuario code
- 001001300
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 249,507
- Priests
- 96
- Catholics per priest
- 2,599
- Extent
- 7,973 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 31
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
- Raphaël Kusiélé Dabiré
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
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul stands in Diébougou, 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 BanforaBanfora
- Diocese of DédougouDédougou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Diébougou in Burkina Faso gives its name and seat to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Diébougou (Latin: Dioecesis Diebuguensis), which lies within the ecclesiastical province of Bobo-Dioulasso.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 35, Diébougou, Burkina Faso
- Telephone
- 20.90.53.85
- [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].