Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobodiulassen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Metropolitan archdiocese in Burkina Faso, founded in 1927 as an apostolic prefecture and elevated to an archdiocese in 2000. Archbishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré has led the see since December 2024, with suffragans including Banfora, Dédougou, Diébougou, Gaoua, and Nouna.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 December 2000
- Latin
- Bobodiulassen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- Annuario code
- 001000916
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 225,790
- Population
- 2,116,740
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 10.7%
- Priests
- 98
- Catholics per priest
- 2,304
- Extent
- 24,415 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.2
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
- Archbishop
- Laurent Birfuoré 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 Our Lady of Lourdes stands in Bobo-Dioulasso, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BanforaBanfora
- Diocese of DiébougouDiébougou
- Diocese of DédougouDédougou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Burkina Faso, the ecclesiastical province of Bobo-Dioulasso has as its Metropolitan See the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso, known in Latin as Archidioecesis Bobodiulassensis.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Archevêché, Lafiaso, 01 B.P. 312, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Telephone
- 20.97.00.53
- lafiasso@gmail.com
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.