Diocese of Kankan Diœcesis Kankanensis | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Guinea |
| Metropolitan | Conakry |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 118,000 km2 (46,000 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 1,809,716 55,483 (3.1%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Vacant |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Alexis Aly Tagbino |
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The Diocese of Kankan (Latin: Diœcesis Kankanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Guinea. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Conakry, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral is the Marian Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Victoires et de la Paix, dedicated to Our Lady of Victories and Peace, in the episcopal see of Kankan.