Diocese of Daloa, Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 (original) (raw)

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

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