Cote d’Ivoire: Appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Bouaké

Vatican City — The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa, until now apostolic administrator of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bouaké, Cote d’Ivoire, as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese.

Archbishop-elect Jacque Assanvo Ahiwa was born on 6 January 1969 in Kuindjabo, in the district of Aboisso, diocese of Grand-Bassam. After completing his formation at the major seminary of Bouaké and the Saint Coeur de Marie Major Seminary of Anyama, he was ordained a priest on…