Diocese of Ouahigouya
Uahiguyaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso
The Diocese of Ouahigouya is a Latin Church diocese in northern Burkina Faso, erected in 1958. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ouagadougou and led by Bishop Justin Kientega.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 June 1958
- Latin
- Uahiguyaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002492
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 147,755
- Priests
- 61
- Catholics per priest
- 2,422
- Extent
- 17,067 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.7
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
- Justin Kientega
- Born
- 7 July 1959
- Birthplace
- Temnaoré
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 de la Délivrance stands in Ouahigouya, 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 Ouagadougou
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ouagadougou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of OuagadougouOuagadougou
- Diocese of KoudougouKoudougou
- Diocese of MangaManga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 33, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso
- Telephone
- 24.55.02.10
- [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].