Diocese of Kankan
The Diocese of Kankan is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Guinea. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Conakry, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral is the Marian Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Victoires et de la Paix, dedicated to Our Lady of Victories and Peace, in the episcopal see of Kankan.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 72,455 Catholics on 118,000 km2 in 14 parishes and 76 missions with 40 priests, 23 lay religious and 7 seminarians.History
- Established on 12 May 1949 as Apostolic Prefecture of Kankan, on territory canonically split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of French Guinea
- Promoted on 17 November 1993 as Diocese of Kankan.
Bishops
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefects of Kankan- Father Maurizio Le Mailloux, Holy Ghost Fathers
- Apostolic Administrator Gérard-Paul-Louis-Marie de Milleville, C.S.Sp., while Metropolitan Archbishop of Conakry, later Titular Archbishop of Gabala as Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza, Apostolic Administrator of Basse-Terre ; died 2207
- Fr. Jean B. Coudray, C.S.Sp.
- Apostolic Administrator Robert Sarah, while Metropolitan Archbishop of Conakry, President of Episcopal Conference of the Guinea ; later Roman Curia official as Secretary of Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Vice-Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Urbaniana University, President of Pontifical Council “Cor unum”, created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana, Prefect of Roman Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
- Vincent Coulibaly, first Guinean incumbent; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Conakry, staying on shortly as Apostolic Administrator of Kankan, President of Episcopal Conference of the Guinea
- Emmanuel Félémou, President of Episcopal Conference of the Guinea ; no previous prelature.
Auxiliary Bishop
- Alexis Aly Tagbino