Dieudonné Yougbaré (February 16, 1917 – November 4, 2011) was a
Burkinabé-born bishop of the
Roman Catholic Church
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. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest Catholic bishops and the oldest one from Burkina Faso.
Yougbaré was born in
Koupéla, Burkina Faso, and was ordained priest on April 8, 1945. He was appointed the bishop of the
Archdiocese of Koupéla
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associ ...
(which was then a diocese) on February 29, 1956, where he remained until his retirement on June 1, 1995.
External links
Catholic Hierarchy
1917 births
2011 deaths
People from Centre-Est Region
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Burkina Faso
Roman Catholic bishops of Koupéla
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