Metropolitan Archdiocese of

Bouaké

Cote d’Ivoire Cote d’Ivoire

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Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese Metr. Archdiocese

Name: Bouaké / Buaken(sis) (Latin)

Suffragan Sees: Abengourou, Bondoukou, Yamoussoukro

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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History

Present Prelates

Metropolitan Archbishop (2024.07.25 – ...):Archbishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa (55)Archbishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa (55)

Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Bouaké (Roman Rite)

Archbishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa (55)Archbishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa (55)
(2024.07.25 – ...)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire)

Pasce oves meas

Born:1969.01.06 (Kuindjabo, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:1997.12.13
Consecrated Bishop:2020.10.03

Priest of Grand-Bassam (Cote d’Ivoire) (1997.12.13 – 2020.05.05)

Titular Bishop of Elephantaria in Mauretania (2020.05.05 – 2024.07.25)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (2020.05.05 – 2024.07.25)

Apostolic Administrator of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (2024.02.16 – 2024.07.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (2024.07.25 – ...)

Archbishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa (55)Bishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa (55) (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 2024.02.16 – 2024.07.25)

Archbishop Paul-Siméon Ahouanan Djro, O.F.M.
(2006.09.22 – 2024.02.12)

Annuntiare evangelium vitæ

Born:1952.12.19 (Bingerville, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:1981.07.19
Consecrated Bishop:1996.03.16
Died:2024.02.12 (Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire † 71)

Bishop of Yamoussoukro (Cote d’Ivoire) (1995.12.06 – 2006.01.12)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (2006.01.12 – 2006.09.22)

Apostolic Administrator of Yamoussoukro (Cote d’Ivoire) (2006.04.22 – 2006.07.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (2006.09.22 – 2024.02.12)

Archbishop Vital Komenan Yao
(1994.12.19 – 2006.09.22)

Born:1938 (Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:1964.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:1973.07.29
Died:2006.09.22 († 67)

Bishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (1973.05.17 – 1994.12.19)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (1994.12.19 – 2006.09.22)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Côte d’Ivoire (1999 – 2005)

Bishops of Bouaké (Roman Rite)

Bishop Vital Komenan Yao (later Archbishop)
(1973.05.17 – 1994.12.19)

(see above)

Bishop André-Pierre Duirat, S.M.A.
(1955.09.14 – 1973.05.17)

Born:1908.05.30 (France)
Ordained Priest:1934.01.06
Consecrated Bishop:1956.12.08
Died:1998.12.29 († 90)

Vicar Apostolic of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (1951.10.26 – 1955.09.14)

Bishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire) (1955.09.14 – 1973.05.17)

Vicars Apostolic of Bouaké (Roman Rite)

Bishop-elect André-Pierre Duirat, S.M.A.
(1951.10.26 – 1955.09.14)

(see above)

Former Prelates

Special Churches

Churches by City (22)

Daloa (↙), Katiola (↑), Bondoukou (→), Abengourou (↘), Yamoussoukro (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 20,000 km²

Population: 267,130 Catholics (19.6% of 1,364,929 total)

Pastoral Centres: 39 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 88 priests (65 diocesan, 23 religious), 100 religious (39 brothers, 61 sisters), 57 seminarians

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Pastoral Centres

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Seminarians

Last updated on 2024.10.13

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