Diocese of Wiawso
Viavsen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Wiawso, Ghana
The Diocese of Wiawso is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the Western North Region of Ghana, erected in 1999 from the Diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Cape Coast.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 December 1999
- Latin
- Viavsen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001000152
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 112,000
- Population
- 597,163
- Catholic share
- 18.8%
- Priests
- 49
- Catholics per priest
- 2,286
- Extent
- 8,696 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 13
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
- Samuel Nkuah-Boateng
- Born
- 6 May 1968
- Birthplace
- Sefwi Bosomoiso
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
St. Joseph's Cathedral stands in Wiawso, 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 Cape Coast
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cape Coast.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Cape CoastCape Coast
- Diocese of Sekondi–TakoradiSekondi–Takoradi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Diocese, P.M.B. 77, Sefwi Wiawso, West Africa, Ghana
- Telephone
- [024]41.58.962
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].