Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Koupéla

The Archdiocese of Koupéla (Latin: Archidioecesis Kupelaënsis) is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Koupéla in Burkina Faso.

The Cathedral of Koupéla in 2007

History

• 20 February 1956: Established as Diocese of Koupéla from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ouagadougou
• 5 December 2000: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Koupéla

Special churches

The seat of the archbishop is Our Lady of Graces Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre Dame des Grâces) in Koupéla.

Bishops

Ordinaries, in reverse chronological order

• Metropolitan Archbishops of Koupéla (Roman rite), below
  • Archbishop Gabriel Sayaogo 7 December 2019 – present
  • Archbishop Séraphin François Rouamba 5 December 2000 – 7 December 2019; see below
• Bishops of Koupéla (Roman rite), below
  • Bishop Séraphin François Rouamba 1 June 1995 – 5 December 2000; see above
  • Bishop Dieudonné Yougbaré 29 February 1956 – 1 June 1995

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Pierre Claver Malgo, appointed Bishop of Fada N’Gourma in 2012
• Théophile Nare, appointed Bishop of Kaya in 2018

Suffragan Dioceses

• Dori
• Fada N’Gourma
• Kaya
• Tenkodogo

Sources

• GCatholic.org