Denis Martin Tapsoba

Denis Martin Tapsoba MAFR ( born July 6, 1916 in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta ( Burkina Faso since 1984 ); † March 13, 2008 ibid ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Ouahigouya in Burkina Faso.

Life

Denis Tapsoba joined the Order of the White Fathers and received on 6 May 1944, the ordination.

In 1966 he was Paul VI. Bishop of the Diocese of Ouahigouya, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou in Upper Volta, Burkina Faso since 1984, was appointed. He received his episcopal consecration on 16 October 1966, the then president of the secretariat of the non-believers Franz Cardinal König; Co-consecrators were the Auxiliary Bishop of Vienna Franz Jachym and the auxiliary bishop in Essen Julius Angerhausen.

1984 his resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II.

Work

Tapsoba and Dr. Bruno Buchwieser, President of the Austrian Young Workers Movement and longtime General of Burkina Faso in Austria, engaged already in the 1960s for relations between Austria and the former Upper Volta.

Together with Father Alain Gaye of the Missionaries of Africa ( White Fathers ) in 1967, he founded the Congregation of the Sisters of " Notre Dame du Lac Bam ".