Diocese of Wa, Ghana 🇬🇠(original) (raw)
Celebrations
History
- 1959.11.03: Established as Diocese of Wa / Vaën(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Tamale and became suffragan of Cape Coast)
- 1977.05.30: Became suffragan of Tamale
Statistics (2016.12.31)
Area: 18,478 km²
Population: 431,000 Catholics (43.7% of 986,000 total)
Pastoral Centres: 25 parishes
Personnel: 95 priests (91 diocesan, 4 religious), 190 religious (38 brothers, 152 sisters), 29 seminarians