AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of bishop of Thiès
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Vatican City - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Martin Boucar Tine, S.S.S., until now bishop of Kaolack, as bishop of the diocese of Thiès, Senegal. Bishop Martin Boucar Tine, S.S.S., was born on 16 September 1966 in Koudiadiène, diocese of Thiès. He received his religious formation in the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament and studied philosophy at the Centre Saint Augustin in Dakar. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he carried out his novitiate in Lonzo and was awarded a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Theologat Saint Eugène de Mazenod in Kinshasa. He made his…
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