Ouagadougou, 25 January, 2025 / 9:23 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis has appointed Mons. Guy Mukasa Sanon as the Local Ordinary of Burkina Faso’s Catholic Diocese of Nouna and Mons. Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella as Bishop of Laghouat Diocese in Algeria.
In the Saturday, January 25 administrative changes in the West African nation of Burkina Faso and Algeria in North Africa, which the Holy See Press Office published, the Holy Father also accepted the retirement of 77-year-old Bishop Joseph Sama from the pastoral care of Nouna Diocese.
Born in September 1968, Mons. Sanon has been serving as Rector of the Sts. Peter and Paul Major Seminary Kossoghin in the Catholic Archdiocese of Ouagadougou. He was ordained a Priest in July 1996 after completing his philosophical and theological studies at the St. John the Baptist Wayalghin Major Seminary and St. Peter Claver Koumi Major Seminary in Bobo-Dioulasso Archdiocese respectively.
The holder of a Doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso.
As a Priest, Mons. Sanon has served as Parish Vicar of St. Vincent de Koko in Bobo-Dioulasso and formator and director of studies in the Minor Seminary of Nasso.
