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The Roman Catholic Church in Ghana (West Africa) is composed solely of a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national Episcopal Conference of Ghana, comprising a single pre-diocesan (exempt) apostolic vicariate and four ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a Metropolitan Archdiocese, with a total of 15 suffragan dioceses.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Accra covers the Greater Accra Region and parts of the Volta Region. There are 62 parishes and rectories. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Accra (Latin: Accraën(sis)) is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Accra in Ghana which includes the suffragan dioceses of Ho, Koforidua, Jasikan and Keta-Akatsi.
The Catholic Church in Ghana is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. [1] According to the 2021 census, approximately 10% of the population is Catholic. [2] The country is divided into 20 dioceses including four archdioceses and 1 Vicariate. [3] Peter Turkson, a Ghanaian cardinal of the ...
3.2 Other priest of this diocese who became ... The Roman Catholic ... Kumasien(sis)) is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Kumasi in Ghana ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Keta–Akatsi (Latin: Ketaën(sis)–Akatsien(sis)) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Accra in Ghana, yet still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The bishops' seat is Christ the King Cathedral, in Akatsi.
Location; Country Ghana Metropolitan: Accra: Statistics; Area: 5,893 km 2 (2,275 sq mi): Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2004) 523,457 172,802 (33.0%) Information ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sekondi–Takoradi (Latin: Sekondien(sis)–Takoradien(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the ecclesiastical province of Cape Coast in Ghana. History
The establishment of the Diocese of Sunyani from Diocese of Kumasi was officially announced on 30 March 1973. This new diocese encompassed the entire Brong-Ahafo Region, and the late Msgr. James Kwadwo Owusu from Burma Camp was designated as its inaugural Bishop. At that time, there existed merely nine parishes within the diocese.