Guéckédou, 29 June, 2023 / 8:52 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis has erected the Diocese of Guéckédou as a new Episcopal See in Guinea and appointed Mons. Norbert Tamba Sandouno as its pioneer Bishop.
The latest administrative changes in the West African nation were made public by the Holy See Press office in its Thursday, June 29 publication.
The newly erected Diocese that is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Conakry borders the Diocese of Kankan to the North, the Diocese of Kenema (Sierra Leone) to the West, the Diocese of Gbarnga (Liberia) to the South, and the Diocese of N'Zérékoré to the East.
Guéckédou Diocese measures 35,476 square kilometers and has a population of 1,285,308 of which 62,509 are Catholics representing 4.86 percent of the total population, according to the Holy See report.
Mons. Tamba, who until his appointment has been the administrator of St. Philip Parish in Houidou in Kankan Diocese, was born in June 1967 in Koniandou, Guéckédou Prefecture, the new Diocese.
