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Diocese of Sikasso

Sikassen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sikasso, Mali

Latin Church diocese in Sikasso, Mali, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1947 and elevated to a diocese on 6 July 1963. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bamako, and Pope Leo XIV appointed Noël Bernard Coulibaly as bishop on 19 March 2026.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
6 July 1963
Latin
Sikassen(sis)
Annuario code
001003060

The see in figures

Catholics
44,600
Population
2,401,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
1.9%
Priests
30
Catholics per priest
1,487
Extent
47,950 km²
Catholics per km²
0.9

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
Noël Bernard Coulibaly

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 Notre-Dame de Lourdes stands in Sikasso, 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 Bamako

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bamako.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Seated in the city of Sikasso in Mali, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sikasso (Latin: Sikassen(sis), French: Diocèse catholique romain de Sikasso) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bamako.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.