Paul Zoungrana

Paul Cardinal Zoungrana MAFR ( born September 3, 1917 in Ouagadougou, Upper Senegal and Niger, Burkina Faso today, † June 4, 2000 Ouagadougou ) was Archbishop of Ouagadougou in the West African nation of Burkina Faso.

Life

Paul Zoungrana joined in 1925 the Small Seminary of Pabré, 1935, he joined the Major Seminary of Koumi in Bobo Dioulasso. After studying philosophy and Catholic theology he received on May 2, 1942, the sacrament of Holy Orders and entered the Order of the Missionaries of Africa ( White Fathers ). After the novitiate at Maison Carrée in Algeria he laid on September 24, 1948 from the profession. From 1949 to 1952 he completed his doctoral studies in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and studied social sciences at the Institut Catholique de Paris. In 1954 he returned to Africa and taught until 1959 at the Seminary of Koumi, in the years 1959 and 1960 he served as Director of the Information Centre for Social Issues in Ouagadougou.

On April 5, 1960, he was named by Pope John XXIII. Archbishop of Ouagadougou and donated him on May 8 of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Bishop Emeritus of St. Lawrence Gulf, Napoléon -Alexandre Labrie and Auxiliary Bishop Fulton John Sheen from New York.

Paul Zoungrana participated in the years 1962-1965 at the Second Vatican Council. On February 22, 1965 it took Pope Paul VI. as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Camillo de Lellis in the College of Cardinals. The management of the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou in 1995 he laid for reasons of age. He died on June 4, 2000 in Ouagadougou and was buried in the local cathedral.

Zoungrana was the embedding of the Christian faith in the traditional African rites at heart, in this spirit, his funeral ceremony took place.