Diocese of Manga
Mangan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Manga, Burkina Faso
The Diocese of Manga is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in Burkina Faso, erected in 1997 from Koupela and Ouagadougou. It is led by Bishop Medard Leopold Ouedraogo, appointed in 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 January 1997
- Latin
- Mangan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001002140
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 107,104
- Population
- 846,041
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 12.7%
- Priests
- 22
- Catholics per priest
- 4,868
- Extent
- 9,870 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
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
- Médard Léopold Ouédraogo
- Born
- 8 June 1953
- Birthplace
- Ouagadougou
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
Notre Dame de l’Assomption stands in Manga, 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 Ouagadougou
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ouagadougou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of OuagadougouOuagadougou
- Diocese of KoudougouKoudougou
- Diocese of OuahigouyaOuahigouya
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Manga, in Burkina Faso, is the seat of a Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Mangana) within the ecclesiastical province of Ouagadougou. Its territory covers 25,600 square kilometres (9,870 sq mi) and holds a total population of 574,622, of whom 107,104 are Catholic, served by 16 priests and 21 religious. Médard Léopold Ouédraogo has led the diocese as bishop since his appointment in 2022.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 325, Manga, Burkina Faso
- Telephone
- 25.40.01.42; fax 25.40.01.20
- evechemanga@yahoo.fr
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.