Martin Boucar Tine

Martin Boucar Tine S.S.S. (born 16 September 1966) is a Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaolack, Senegal. He was appointed bishop of Kaolack, on 25 July 2018 by Pope Francis. He was consecrated and installed at Kaolack on 24 November 2018. He is a member of the Order of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament.

Background and education He was born on 16 September 1966, at Koudiadiène, Diocese of Thiès, Thiès Region, Senegal. He attended Ngasobil Minor Seminary before he entered Sacraments Fathers College Saint Gabriel and Le collège Sacré-cœur de Dakar, where he began his priestly formation. He studied Philosophy at Saint Augustin Centre Sénégal in Dakar.

He studied at Lonzo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Theology from the l'Institut Saint Eugène de Mazenod de Kinshasa. He then graduated with a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Catholic University of the Congo in Kinshasa. He was ordained a priest on 6 July 1996.