Constantin Guirma

Constantin Guirma ( born February 5, 1920 in Kaya, Burkina Faso; † August 6, 2010 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) was Bishop of Kaya.

Family

Constantin Guirma, son of a nurse, was the eldest of eleven children. Two other siblings followed in the church office, his brother Rene Bélemsida OP and his sister joined a women's order in ( Sister Blanche ). His brother Frédéric Guirma was ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Life

Guirma received on 19 May 1946 the Vicar Apostolic Joanny Thévenoud in Ouagadougou the priesthood. He was assistant priest in Koupéla, then pastor in Tenkodogo. In 1954 he founded the parish in Ouargaye and 1956 pastor in Pabré. From 1960 to 1962 was Constantin Guirma Kaplan of immigrants from Côte d' Ivoire. 1962 saw the pastorate in Kologh Naba. In 1967 he became a priest of the Mission Station Saint -Michel in Kolea, Conakry, Guinea, and shortly afterwards Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on July 26, 1969 Bishop of Kaya and donated him on 1 August of the same year his first visit to Africa in Kampala, Uganda, personally consecrated bishop; Were co-consecrators Sergio Pignedoli, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga, Archbishop of Kampala.

On March 9, 1996 John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.

Constantin Guirma was buried after a Requiem in the Cathedral of Ouagadougou in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Kaya.