Diocese of Sunyani
Sunyanien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sunyani, Ghana
The Diocese of Sunyani is a Latin-rite diocese in the Bono Region of Ghana, erected on 30 March 1973 from the Diocese of Kumasi. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kumasi and has been led since 2003 by Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 March 1973
- Latin
- Sunyanien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003126
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 177,381
- Population
- 1,995,893
- Catholic share
- 8.9%
- Priests
- 108
- Catholics per priest
- 1,642
- Extent
- 6,408 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 28
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
- Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi
- Born
- 11 August 1957
- Birthplace
- Wamanafo
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
Christ the King Cathedral stands in Sunyani, 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:
- Archdiocese of KumasiKumasi
- Diocese of GoasoGoaso
- Diocese of Konongo–MampongKonongo–Mampong
- Diocese of ObuasiObuasi
- Diocese of TechimanTechiman
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Ghana, the city of Sunyani hosts this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Sunyanien(sis)), a member of the ecclesiastical province of Kumasi. Christ the King Cathedral serves as its cathedral parish.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop's House, P.O. Box 450, Sunyani, Bono Region, Ghana
- Telephone
- 592.352.871
- [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].