Manga, 19 June, 2023 / 8:50 pm (ACI Africa).
Bishop Wenceslas Compaoré, the first Catholic Bishop of Manga Diocese in Burkina Faso, has passed on in Ouagadougou after an illness. He was aged 88.
Bishop Compaoré died in the early hours of Sunday, June 18 at the Our Lady of Peace Polyclinic, the Local Ordinary of the Burkinabe Diocese, Bishop Médard Léopold Ouédraogo, has announced in a June 18 statement.
“The funeral program will be communicated at a later date,” Bishop Ouédraogo says in the statement shared with ACI Africa, and implores, “May the God of mercy and peace welcome His servant Bishop Wenceslas Compaoré in the joy of heaven,”
Born in November 1934 in the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou, the late Bishop Compaoré was ordained a Priest in September 1962.
He was appointed Bishop of Manga Diocese in January 1997.