Diocese of Grand-Bassam
Bassam Maioris
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
Latin-rite diocese in southeastern coastal Cote d'Ivoire, erected on 8 June 1982 from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Abidjan. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Abidjan and its seat is the Cathedrale Sacre Coeur in Grand-Bassam. Bishop Raymond Ahoua, F.D.P., leads the diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 June 1982
- Latin
- Bassam Maioris
- Annuario code
- 001001516
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 230,841
- Population
- 962,886
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 24.0%
- Priests
- 115
- Catholics per priest
- 2,007
- Extent
- 8,354 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 28
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
- Raymond Ahoua, F.D.P.
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
Cathedrale Sacre Coeur, Grand-Bassam stands in Grand-Bassam, 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 Abidjan
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Abidjan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AbidjanAbidjan
- Diocese of AgbovilleAgboville
- Diocese of YopougonYopougon
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Grand-Bassam gives its seat to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand-Bassam (Latin: Bassam Maioris), part of the ecclesiastical province of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 57, Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
- Telephone and fax
- 21.30.15.22
- evechgb@aviso.ci
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.