Diocese of Ho
Hoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ho, Ghana
The Diocese of Ho covers the Volta Region of Ghana and was established in 1994 from the former Diocese of Keta-Ho. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Accra and is led by Bishop Emmanuel Kofi Fianu, S.V.D.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 December 1994
- Latin
- Hoën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001597
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 172,802
- Population
- 523,457
- Catholic share
- 33.0%
- Priests
- 92
- Catholics per priest
- 1,878
- Extent
- 5,893 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 29
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Emmanuel Fianu
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
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Ho-Bankoe stands in Ho, 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 Accra
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Accra.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AccraAccra
- Diocese of DonkorkromDonkorkrom
- Diocese of JasikanJasikan
- Diocese of Keta–AkatsiKeta–Akatsi
- Diocese of KoforiduaKoforidua
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Diocesan Secretariat, P.O. Box HP 350, Ho, V.R., Ghana
- Telephone
- [020]68.92.351
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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.
Sources
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].