Guy Mukasa Sanon

Guy Mukasa Sanon (born 14 September 1968) is a Burkinabe Catholic prelate who is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouna, Burkina Faso since 25 January 2025. Before that, from 14 July 1996 until 25 January 2025, he was a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso. He was appointed bishop on 25 January 2025 by Pope Francis. He was consecrated at Nouna on 3 May 2025. His installation took place on 11 May 2025.

Background and education He was born on 14 September 1968 at Toussiana, Hauts-Bassins, Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. He attended Toussiana Mixed Primary School from 1974 until 1981. He then entered the Immaculate Conception of Nasso Minor Youth Seminary near Bobo-Dioulasso, where he studied from 1981 until 1989. Fron 1989 until 1991 he studied Philosophy at Saint Jean-Baptiste Major Seminary of Wayalgê, in Ouagadougou. He transferred to the Saint Pierre-Claver Major Seminary of Koumi in Bobo-Dioulasso, where he studied Theology from 1991 until 1993.

He took one year of Pastoral Internship at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in Bobo-Dioulasso from 1993 until 1994. He continued with theological studies at the Saint Pierre-Claver Major Seminary of Koumi near Bobo-Dioulasso, studying there from 1994 util 1996. He graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 2001 from the Catholic University of Abidjan, having studied there from 1998. He also holds a Doctorate in Philosophy awarded by the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, where he studied from 2005 until 2010. He was ordained a priest on 14 July 1996.