Diocese of Kankan
Kankanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kankan, Guinea
The Diocese of Kankan is a Latin rite see in eastern Guinea, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1949 and promoted to a diocese in 1993. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Conakry.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 November 1993
- Latin
- Kankanen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Victories and Peace
- Annuario code
- 001001801
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 72,455
- Population
- 1,809,716
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 4.0%
- Priests
- 26
- Catholics per priest
- 2,787
- Extent
- 118,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.6
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
- Alexis Aly Tagbino
- Born
- 17 October 1972
- Birthplace
- Guéckédou
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 Notre-Dame des Victoires et de la Paix stands in Kankan, 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 GuéckédouGuéckédou
- Diocese of N’ZérékoréN’Zérékoré
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Guinea's Diocese of Kankan (Latin: Diœcesis Kankanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Conakry that nevertheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral, the Marian Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Victoires et de la Paix, dedicated to Our Lady of Victories and Peace, stands in the episcopal see of Kankan.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 208, Kankan, Guinée
- Telephone
- 626.46.47.10
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.