Diocese of San Pedro, Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: San Pedro (français) / San Pedro-en-Côte-d’Ivoire (français) / Sancti Petri in Litore Eburneo (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Gagnoa

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1989.10.23: Established as Diocese of San Pedro (français) / San Pedro-en-Côte-d’Ivoire (français) / Sancti Petri in Litore Eburneo (Latin) (from Diocese of Gagnoa and became suffragan of Abidjan)
1994.12.19: Became suffragan of Gagnoa

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.10.22 – ...):

Bishop Youlo Alexis Touabli (66)

President of Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa

Apostolic Administrator of Agboville (Cote d’Ivoire)

Ordinaries

Bishops of San Pedro (Roman Rite)

Bishop Youlo Alexis Touabli (66)
(2025.10.22 – ...)

Bishop of San Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire)
President of Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa
Apostolic Administrator of Agboville (Cote d’Ivoire)

Viens Esprit Saint

Born:	1959.11.17 (Béréblo, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:	1987.08.08
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.12.16

Priest of San Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire) (1987.08.08 – 2006.10.14)

Bishop of Agboville (Cote d’Ivoire) (2006.10.14 – 2025.10.22)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Côte d’Ivoire (2011.06 – 2017.05.21)

Second Vice-President of Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (2016.02 – 2022.05.05)

Apostolic Administrator of Yamoussoukro (Cote d’Ivoire) (2018.06.19 – 2022.12.28)

President of Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (2022.05.05 – ...)

Bishop of San Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire) (2025.10.22 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Agboville (Cote d’Ivoire) (2025.10.22 – ...)

Archbishop Jean-Jacques Koffi Oi Koffi (63)
(Apostolic Administrator 2025.04.08 – 2025.10.22)

Bishop Jean-Jacques Koffi Oi Koffi (63) (later Archbishop)
(2009.01.03 – 2025.04.08)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa (Cote d’Ivoire)

Amen

Born:	1962.03.22 (Bongouanou, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:	1990.08.04
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.12.21

Priest of Abengourou (Cote d’Ivoire) (1990.08.04 – 2003.11.21)

Bishop of Abengourou (Cote d’Ivoire) (2003.11.21 – 2009.01.03)

Bishop of San Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire) (2009.01.03 – 2025.04.08)

Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Côte d’Ivoire (2017.05.21 – 2023.06.04)

Apostolic Administrator of Gagnoa (Cote d’Ivoire) (2023.10.04 – 2025.04.08)

Apostolic Administrator of San Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire) (2025.04.08 – 2025.10.22)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa (Cote d’Ivoire) (2025.04.08 – ...)

Bishop Paulin Kouabenan N’Gnamé
(2007.03.01 – 2008.03.21)

Born:	1962.05.12 (Mérékou, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:	1989.08.06
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.05.12
Died:	2008.03.21 († 45)

Priest of Bondoukou (Cote d’Ivoire) (1989.08.06 – 2007.03.01)

Bishop of San Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire) (2007.03.01 – 2008.03.21)

Bishop Barthélémy Djabla (later Archbishop)
(1989.10.23 – 2006.07.21)

Born:	1936 (Mahibouo, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:	1964.03.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1990.01.07
Died:	2008.09.15 († 71)

Bishop of San Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire) (1989.10.23 – 2006.07.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa (Cote d’Ivoire) (2006.07.21 – 2008.09.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra

Man (↑), Gagnoa (↗), Yopougon (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 27,382 km²

Population: 249,000 Catholics (8.7% of 2,870,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 37 parishes, 4 missions

Personnel: 74 priests (56 diocesan, 18 religious), 55 religious (22 brothers, 33 sisters), 25 seminarians