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Diocese of Goaso

Goasonen(sis)

The Diocese of Goaso is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the Ahafo region of Ghana, erected in October 1997 from the Diocese of Sunyani. Its first and current bishop is Peter Kwaku Atuahene.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
24 October 1997
Latin
Goasonen(sis)
Annuario code
001001497

The see in figures

Catholics
63,533
Population
805,180
Catholic share
7.9%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
65
Catholics per priest
977

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Peter Kwaku Atuahene
Born
25 September 1956
Birthplace
Brosankro

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua, Goaso stands in Goaso, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Kumasi

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kumasi.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

What is kept by invitation

The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.

The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.

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Sources

The see's own website

This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].