Diocese of Guéckédou
Gueckedouen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Guéckédou, Guinea
The Diocese of Guéckédou is a Latin suffragan diocese in southeastern Guinea, erected on 29 June 2023 from territory of the dioceses of Kankan and N'Zérékoré. Its cathedral is Our Lady of the Rosary, and it is led by its first bishop, Norbert Tamba Sandouno.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 June 2023
- Latin
- Gueckedouen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Rosary
- Annuario code
- 001005115
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 62,509
- Population
- 1,285,308
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 4.9%
- Priests
- 30
- Catholics per priest
- 2,084
- Extent
- 35,476 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.8
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
- Norbert Tamba Sandouno
- Born
- 6 June 1967
- Birthplace
- Koniandou
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
Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral stands in Guéckédou, 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 Conakry
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Conakry.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ConakryConakry
- Diocese of BokéBoké
- Diocese of KankanKankan
- Diocese of N’ZérékoréN’Zérékoré
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- B.P. 61, Gueckedou, Guinée
- Telephone
- 623.80.02.71
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.