Roman Catholic Diocese of Thiès


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Thiès is a diocese located in the city of Thiès in the Ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal.
On Friday, January 18, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI named the Rev. André Gueye as Bishop-designate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thiès, to be ordained and installed at a date in the near future. Up until then, he had been serving as a member of the Thiès diocesan clergy, and as a professor of philosophy at the Major Seminary of Saint Jean Marie Vianney in Bris, Senegal.

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