Suffragan diocese Kankan, Guinea
Diocese of Kankan
Kankanen(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Kankan is a Latin rite see in eastern Guinea, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1949 and promoted to a diocese in 1993. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Conakry.
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- Established
- 1993
- Catholics
- 72,455
- Priests
- 26
- Territory
- 118,000 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Alexis Aly Tagbino
- Born
- 17 October 1972
- Birthplace
- Guéckédou
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The cathedral
Cathedrale Notre-Dame des Victoires et de la Paix stands in Kankan, 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
Guinea's Diocese of Kankan (Latin: Diœcesis Kankanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Conakry that nevertheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral, the Marian Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Victoires et de la Paix, dedicated to Our Lady of Victories and Peace, stands in the episcopal see of Kankan.