Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo

Raymond -Maria Tchidimbo CSSp, Raymond -Marie ( born August 15, 1920 in Conakry; † 26 March 2011) was a French- Guinean religious clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Conakry. He participated in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council. From 1970 to 1979 he was interned as a political prisoner in the camp Camp Boiro.

Life

Raymond -Maria Tchidimbo joined the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, and received on 7 October 1951, the ordination.

Pope John XXIII. appointed him on 10 March 1962 Archbishop of Conakry. He was the first native archbishop of Conakry. The Archbishop of Dakar Hyacinthe Thiandoum donated to him on 31 May of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Bernardin Gantin, Archbishop of Cotonou, and Cardinal Bernard Yago, Archbishop of Abidjan.

Raymond -Maria Tchidimbo was sentenced on 24 December 1970 command of the dictatorial ruling President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré, to life in forced labor. Tchidimbo was the only serious political rival and alleged agent of Germany. After eight years and eight months imprisonment and torture at the notorious camp Camp Boiro, of which the first four years in solitary confinement, he was released in 1979 and went into exile in Canada.

His resignation was accepted on August 13, 1979 Pope John Paul II. In 1984 he was a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family.