As a Priest, the Archbishop-elect served in various capacities, including Assistant Parish Priest, Parish Priest, and lecturer of Philosophy at St. Jean Marie Vianney Major Seminary of the Catholic Diocese of Ziguinchor.
He was appointed Bishop of Thiès in January 2013. Since January 2023, he has been serving as Apostolic Administrator of Saint-Louis du Sénégal Diocese.
Once installed as Local Ordinary of Dakar, Archbishop-elect Gueye is to oversee the Senegalese Metropolitan See, which measures 4,803 square kilometers with an estimated population of 5,093,320, Catholics numbering 538,940, according to 2023 statistics.
The Senegalese Metropolitan See that has Kaolack, Kolda, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Tambacounda, Thiès, and Ziguinchor as Suffragan Dioceses was erected in 1863 as Apostolic Vicariate of Senegambia from the Apostolic Vicariate of Two Guineas and Senegambia in Gabon, before it was elevated to an Archdiocese in September 1955.
Bishop-elect Anipu, Maradi Diocese
Born in November 1959 in the Catholic Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga in Ghana, the Bishop-elect has been serving as Delegate of the Provincial of Western Africa of the Society of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers/MAfr.).
The Director of the Institut de Formation Islamo-Chrétienne (IFIC) of Bamako in Mali was ordained a Priest in July 1991 after completing his philosophical and theological studies at St. Victor’s Major Seminary in Tamale, Ghana, and the Institut Catholique de Toulouse in France respectively.
As a Priest, he served in various capacities, including Parish Vicar of St. Teresa of Ávila in Zinder, National Chaplain for Niger’s youth, Parish Priest of St. Vincent de Paul in Birni N’Konni, and Provincial Counselor.
The Bishop-elect also served as head of the Community of the White Fathers of Birni N’Konni, lecturer in missiology, traditional African religions, and Islamology at the Missionary Institute of London in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Mons. Anipu served as Provincial Superior of the White Fathers in West Africa, General Assistant and a General Counselor of the White Fathers in Rome.
