Ambroise Ouédraogo

Ambroise Ouédraogo (born 15 December 1948) is the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Maradi in Niger.

He has organised a structure of administration and ministry, with a focus on dialogue with the Islamic majority in the area which has less than 1% Christians.

He was consecrated as a bishop on 26 September that year by Cardinal Francis Arinze, with co-consecrators Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré, archbishop of Ouagadougou, and Guy Armand Romano CSsR, bishop of Niamey.

[4] In the diocese, he created new structures of administration and ministry, for its area which is twice as large as Germany.

[5] He focused on a dialogue with Islam[4] in a region where less than 1% of the population are Christians,[3] in a context where the peaceful relationship were interrupted in January 2015 by violence against Christian locations in Miamey and Maradi, following the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris.