The St. Ann Cathedral () is located in the town of

Gagnoa Gagnoa is a city in south-central Ivory Coast. It is the seat of both Gôh-Djiboua District and Gôh Region. It is also the seat of and a sub-prefecture of Gagnoa Department. Gagnoa is also a commune. In the 2014 census, the city had a populat ...

, in

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, Africa, and it is one of the country's most important religious buildings. It was a parish church that became a

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of the

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on February 3, 1957. Monsignor Barthélémy Djabla was buried here in 2008. St. Ann Cathedral serves as the center of the Archdiocese of Gagnoa (''Archidiocèse de Gagnoa''; ''Archidioecesis Gagnoaënsis''), which is one of the four existing in Ivory Coast, and the center of the ecclesiastical province of Gagnoa. On June 21, 2023, the church was stormed by demonstrators protesting the mismanagement of resources by Archbishop Joseph Yako Ape, who subsequently retired.

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