The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Burkina Faso
This page contains a list of the greatest Burkinabe Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Burkina Faso. This makes Burkina Faso the birth place of the 117th most number of Religious Figures behind Cameroon and Mali.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burkinabe Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Burkinabe Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Philippe Ouédraogo (1945 - )
With an HPI of 50.32, Philippe Ouédraogo is the most famous Burkinabe Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo (born 25 January 1945) is a Burkinabè retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Ouagadougou from 2009 to 2023. He has been a cardinal since 2014. He was previously Bishop of Ouahigouya from 1996 to 2009.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as religious figures born between 1945 and 1945. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include Philippe Ouédraogo.
