Diocese of Fada N’Gourma
Fada Ngurmaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Fada N’Gourma, Burkina Faso
The Diocese of Fada N'Gourma is a Latin Church diocese in eastern Burkina Faso, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Koupéla. Established as an apostolic prefecture in 1959, it was elevated to a diocese in 1964.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 June 1964
- Latin
- Fada Ngurmaën(sis)
- Patron
- St Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001001389
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 143,950
- Population
- 1,942,805
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 7.4%
- Priests
- 51
- Catholics per priest
- 2,823
- Extent
- 46,256 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Pierre Claver Malgo
- Born
- 14 September 1954
- Birthplace
- Dimistènga
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 Saint-Joseph, Fada N'Gourma stands in Fada N’Gourma, 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 Koupéla
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Koupéla.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KoupélaKoupéla
- Diocese of TenkodogoTenkodogo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Burkina Faso, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fada N'Gourma (Latin: Dioecesis Fada Ngurmaënsis) has its seat in the city of Fada N’Gourma and belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Koupéla.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 12, Fada N’Gourma, Burkina Faso
- Telephone
- 70.42.01.00
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.