Barthélemy Adoukonou
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The Right Reverend Barthélemy Adoukonou |
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| Bishop of Zama Minor | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Zama Minor |
| In office | 8 October 2011- |
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| Ordination | 16 December 1966 |
| Consecration | 8 October 2011 by Tarcisio Bertone |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 24, 1942 Abomey, Benin |
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Styles of Barthélemy Adoukonou |
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| Reference style | The Right Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Barthélemy Adoukonou (born 24 August 1942) is a Beninese Roman Catholic bishop. He is the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 3 December 2009. He was previously Secretary-General both of the Conférence Épiscopale Régionale de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Francophone and of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, and a consultor of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. As well as the languages of the two West African international conferences, he speaks Italian and German.
Adoukonou was born in Abomey, Benin in 1942. He was ordained priest on 16 December 1966. After teaching in the Saint Joan of Arc minor seminary of Ouidah (1967–1968), and being chaplain and teacher at the Aufiais College in Cotonou (1968–1970), and assistant parish priest of St Francis of Assisi at Bohicon, Abomey (1970–1971), he spent 1971 to 1977 continuing his studies in religious sociology in Paris, and then of theology at the University of Regensburg, where he earned his doctorate. He was meant to present his dissertation to the Joseph Ratzinger in June 1977, but Ratzinger suddenly asked him to finish it earlier so he could move the presentation forward to March. Between 1977 and 1984 he was rector of the Minor Seminary of St. Paul at Djimi, Abomey, Missionary Professor at the University of West Africa in Abidjan and professor of methodology of research in human and social sciences at the University of the State of Abomey-Calavi and at the Major Seminary of Saint Gall in Ouidah, Benin. From 1988 to 1999 he was Rector of the Benin Propaedeutic Seminary at Missérété, Porto Novo.
On strategies against AIDS, Catholic Documentation Information International published that in March 2009 the priest signed a document along with Cardinal Theodore Adrien Sarr, president of the Regional Conference of Bishops of French West Africa stating that “It is a crime against mankind to deprive children, teen-agers and young people from the training needed for his mind to master the body and its impulses which is called sexual education. In this sense, advertisements for and distribution of condoms could well be nothing else than irresponsibility and a crime against mankind. "
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