Bouaké Catholic Archdiocese

Pope Francis Appoints Two New Archbishops in West Africa: For Bamako in Mali, Bouaké in Ivory Coast

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Robert Cissé, the Local Ordinary of Mali’s  Sikasso Diocese, as Archbishop of the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Bamako, and Bishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa, the Apostolic Administrator of the Bouaké Catholic Archdiocese, as the Local Ordinary of the same in Ivorian Metropolitan See.