Bobo-Dioulasso, 18 December, 2024 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré of Burkina Faso’s Dori Catholic Diocese and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burkina Faso and Niger (CEBN) since 2019 as the new Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.
The appointment of Bishop Dabiré as Archbishop of Bobo-Dioulasso was made public by the Holy See Press office on Wednesday, December 18 in a notice that also indicates that Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Archbishop Paul Yemboaro Ouédraogo, the 76-year-old Burkinabe Church leader, who has been at the helm of Bobo-Dioulasso Archdiocese since November 2010.
Born in September 1965 in Dissin in the Catholic Diocese of Diébougou, Archbishop-elect Dabiré was ordained a Priest in December 1995 for Burkina Faso’s Catholic Diocese of Diébougou.
Since his Priestly ordination, the Archbishop-elect has served in various capacities including lecturing at St. Tarcisius Minor Seminary of Diébougou Diocese and St. Jean Baptiste Wayalge Major Seminary in Ouagadougou.
The holder of a Licentiate and Doctorate in Utoque Iure from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome has also served as a lecturer of civil law at Unity University of Bamako in Mali, judicial vicar and chancellor, and an official of the Interdiocesan Tribunal of Bobo-Dioulasso.
