Diocese of Jasikan
Iasikanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jasikan, Ghana
The Diocese of Jasikan is a Latin Church diocese in the Volta region of Ghana, erected on 19 December 1994 from the Keta-Ho Diocese and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Accra. Bishop Simon Kofi Appiah, appointed in December 2025 and consecrated in April 2026, is its second bishop.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 December 1994
- Latin
- Iasikanen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Peter Claver
- Annuario code
- 001001724
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 147,688
- Population
- 557,828
- Catholic share
- 26.5%
- Priests
- 43
- Catholics per priest
- 3,435
- Extent
- 8,637 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 17
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
- Simon Kofi Appiah
- Born
- 24 April 1964
- Birthplace
- Teteman
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. Peter Claver stands in Jasikan, 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 HoHo
- Diocese of Keta–AkatsiKeta–Akatsi
- Diocese of KoforiduaKoforidua
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box JA 64, Jasikan, Oti Region, Ghana
- Telephone
- [054]62.70.743
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].