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 shareof the people living within its bounds
- 18.8%
- Priests
- 49
- Catholics per priest
- 2,286
- Extent
- 8,696 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 13
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
- Diocesan offices
- 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 the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.