VATICAN CITY, 13 MAY 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Philippe Ouedraogo of Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, as metropolitan archbishop of Ouagadougou (area 9,600, population 2,152,000, Catholics 467,540, priests 190, religious 814), Burkina Faso. The archbishop-elect was born in Konean, Burkina Faso in 1945, he was ordained a priest in 1973 and consecrated a bishop in 1996. He succeeds Archbishop Jean-Marie Untaani Compaore, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archbishop the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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