Saint-Louis, 02 April, 2025 / 9:49 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis has appointed Mons. Augustin Simmel Ndiaye, who has been serving as the Rector of the Burkina Faso-based Catholic University of West Africa (UCAO) as the Local Ordinary of Saint-Louis Du Sénégal Diocese in Senegal.
The appointment of Mons. Ndiaye, who is a member of the Clergy of Senegal’s Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar to shepherd the people of God in the Senegalese Diocese that has been under the administration of Archbishop André Guèye was made public by the Holy See Press office on Wednesday, April 2.
Saint-Louis Du Sénégal Diocese became vacant following the retirement of Bishop Ernest Sambou on 12 January 2023 after attaining the canonical age of 75. Upon his retirement, Bishop Sambou had served the Diocese since his Episcopal Ordination on 29 January 2003.
Born on 2 January 1959 in Fadiouth in the Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar, the Bishop-elect was ordained a Priest on 9 April 1983 after completing his philosophical and theological studies at the François Libermann Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Sébikhotane, Dakar.
Since his Priestly ordination, Mons Simmel has served in various capacities including Vicar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame des Victoires in Dakar; Vicar at Sainte Thérèse in Grand-Dakar; and President of the Union of Senegalese Clergy.
