Diocese of Nouna
Nunen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nouna, Burkina Faso
The Diocese of Nouna is a Latin Church diocese in Burkina Faso, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso. The current see was erected on April 14, 2000, and Bishop Guy Mukasa Sanon was appointed in January 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 April 2000
- Latin
- Nunen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- Annuario code
- 001002415
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 85,098
- Priests
- 40
- Catholics per priest
- 2,127
- Extent
- 15,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.7
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
- Guy Mukasa Sanon
- Born
- 14 September 1968
- Birthplace
- Toussiana
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
Cathédrale Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours, Nouna stands in Nouna, 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 Ecclesiastical Province of Bobo-Dioulasso
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Nouna, a city in Burkina Faso, is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouna (Latin: Dioecesis Nunensis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Bobo-Dioulasso.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].