Diocese of Banfora
Banforen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Banfora, Burkina Faso
The Diocese of Banfora in Burkina Faso was erected in 1998 from territory of the Diocese of Bobo-Dioulasso and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso. Bishop Lucas Kalfa Sanou has led it since its founding.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 June 1998
- Latin
- Banforen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000809
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 37,540
- Population
- 820,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 4.6%
- Priests
- 30
- Catholics per priest
- 1,251
- Extent
- 18,917 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.0
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
- Lucas Kalfa Sanou
- Born
- 4 September 1951
- Birthplace
- Dugona
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
Saint Peter Cathedral stands in Banfora, 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 DiébougouDiébougou
- Diocese of DédougouDédougou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Burkina Faso, the city of Banfora gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Banforensis) that belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bobo-Dioulasso.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 78, Banfora, Burkina Faso
- Telephone
- 20.91.03.97
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.