Diocese of Daloa, Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Daloa / Dalaoaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Gagnoa

Neighbouring Dioceses: Man (←), Odienné (↖), Korhogo (↑), Katiola (↗), Bouaké (↗), Yamoussoukro (→), Gagnoa (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1940.04.09: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Sassandra / Sassandren(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Costa d’Avorio)
1955.09.14: Promoted as Diocese of Daloa / Dalaoaën(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Abidjan)
1956.06.25: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Gagnoa
1968.06.08: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Man
1994.12.19: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Odienné and became suffragan of Gagnoa

Present Prelates

Bishop (2018.04.25 – ...):

Bishop Marcellin Kouadio Yao (66)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Côte d’Ivoire

Ordinaries

Bishops of Daloa (Roman Rite)

Bishop Marcellin Kouadio Yao (66)
(2018.04.25 – ...)

Bishop of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire)
President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Côte d’Ivoire

Veritas liberabit vos

Born:	1960.01.10 (Vavoua, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:	1990.12.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2009.08.22

Priest of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire) (1990.12.29 – 2009.07.01)

Bishop of Yamoussoukro (Cote d’Ivoire) (2009.07.01 – 2018.04.25)

Bishop of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire) (2018.04.25 – ...)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Côte d’Ivoire (2023.06.04 – ...)

Bishop Maurice Konan Kouassi (87)
(2005.03.22 – 2018.04.25)

Bishop emeritus of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire)

In virtute spiritus

Born:	1938 (Adjékro, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:	1965.06.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1995.04.23

Bishop of Odienné (Cote d’Ivoire) (1994.12.19 – 2005.03.22)

Bishop of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire) (2005.03.22 – 2018.04.25)

Bishop Pierre-Marie Coty
(1975.11.20 – 2005.03.22)

Born:	1927.11.22 (Anyama, Cote d’Ivoire)
Ordained Priest:	1955.07.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1976.01.04
Died:	2020.07.17 (Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire † 92)

Bishop of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire) (1975.11.20 – 2005.03.22)

Bishop Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, S.M.A.
(1956.07.04 – 1975.11.20)

Born:	1917.11.16 (Mazamet, France)
Ordained Priest:	1948.07.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1956.11.29
Died:	2012.02.04 (Montpellier, France † 94)

Bishop of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire) (1956.07.04 – 1975.11.20)

Bishop Jean Marie Etrillard, S.M.A.
(1956.02.29 – 1956.07.04)

Born:	1900.08.06 (Temple, France)
Ordained Priest:	1925.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1956.05.31
Died:	1976.05.16 (Saint-Jacut-les-Pins, France † 75)

Bishop of Daloa (Cote d’Ivoire) (1956.02.29 – 1956.07.04)

Bishop of Gagnoa (Cote d’Ivoire) (1956.07.04 – 1971.03.11)

Vicars Apostolic of Sassandra (Roman Rite)

Bishop Alphonse Charles Kirmann, S.M.A.
(1940.04.09 – 1955.03.25)

Born:	1887.08.15 (Bischoffsheim, France)
Ordained Priest:	1910.07.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1940.09.22
Died:	1955.03.25 (Daloa, Cote d’Ivoire † 67)

Titular Bishop of Assuras (1940.04.09 – 1955.03.25)

Vicar Apostolic of Sassandra (Cote d’Ivoire) (1940.04.09 – 1955.03.25)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale du Christ-Roi, Daloa, Sassandra-Marahoué

Man (←), Odienné (↖), Korhogo (↑), Katiola (↗), Bouaké (↗), Yamoussoukro (→), Gagnoa (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 22,637 km²

Population: 859,000 Catholics (31.3% of 2,745,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 48 parishes, 7 missions

Personnel: 103 priests (90 diocesan, 13 religious), 1 deacon, 66 religious (30 brothers, 36 sisters), 17 seminarians