Philippe Ouédraogo

Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo (; born 1945) is a Burkinabé Catholic retired prelate who served as Archbishop of Ouagadougou from 2009 to 2023. He was made a cardinal in 2014. He was previously Bishop of Ouahigouya from 1996 to 2009.

Biography He was born in 1945 in Konéan in Kaya Department. He studied at the Petit Séminaire de Pabré in Ouagadougou from 1959 to 1967 and then at the Grand Séminaire Régional de Koumi in Bobo-Dioulasso from 1967 to 1973.

He was ordained a priest of the diocese of Kaya on 4 July 1973. He returned to Kaya and from 1983 to 1996 he performed parish work while serving at the same time as vicar general of the Kaya Diocese and director of its seminary.

He was president of the Episcopal Conference of Burkina Faso and Niger from 2001 to 2007.

Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 22 February 2014 and assigned to him the titular church of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino. He was the second cardinal from Burkina Faso, following Paul Zoungrana (1917–2000). and of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on 28 October 2016.

He received a papal appointment to participate in the Synod on the Family in October 2014 and October 2015.

In July 2019 he was elected president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). He was in charge until 2023. Ouedraogo was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 30 March 2020, but has recovered from the virus since.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop on 16 October 2023.

Cardinals were eligible to vote in the 2025 papal conclave if they were less than 80 years old on 21 April 2025, the day of Pope Francis's death; as it is not known if Ouedraogo was 79 or 80, there was confusion as to his eligibility. However, he was ultimately included as a cardinal elector in the conclave, which elected Pope Leo XIV.