Diocese of

Cape Palmas

Liberia

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Cape Palmas / Capitis Palmen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Monrovia

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1950.02.02: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Cape Palmas / Capitis Palmen(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Liberia)
1962.05.07: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Cape Palmas / Capitis Palmen(sis) (Latin)
1981.12.19: Promoted as Diocese of Cape Palmas / Capitis Palmen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Monrovia)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2011.01.05 – ...):

Bishop Andrew Jagaye Karnley (57)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Cape Palmas (Roman Rite)

Bishop Andrew Jagaye Karnley (57)
(2011.01.05 – ...)

Bishop of Cape Palmas (Liberia)

Omnia per vim Christi

Born:	1967.04.29 (Jawajeh, Liberia)
Ordained Priest:	1995.07.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.04.30

Priest of Monrovia (Liberia) (1995.07.09 – 2011.01.05)

Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Monrovia (Liberia) (2005.02 – 2011.01.05)

Bishop of Cape Palmas (Liberia) (2011.01.05 – ...)

Bishop Boniface Nyema Dalieh
(1981.12.19 – 2008.10.15)

Born:	1933.12.09 (Liberia)
Ordained Priest:	1965.07.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1974.03.17
Died:	2014.04.25 († 80)

Titular Bishop of Talaptula (1973.12.17 – 1981.12.19)

Vicar Apostolic of Cape Palmas (Liberia) (1973.12.17 – 1981.12.19)

Bishop of Cape Palmas (Liberia) (1981.12.19 – 2008.10.15)

President of Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Gambia and Sierra Leone / ITCABIC (1989 – 1992)

Vicars Apostolic of Cape Palmas (Roman Rite)

Bishop Boniface Nyema Dalieh
(1973.12.17 – 1981.12.19)

(see above)

Bishop Patrick Kla Juwle
(1972.07.30 – 1973.08.18)

Born:	1913.10.20
Ordained Priest:	1946.12.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1972.11.26
Died:	1973.08.18 († 59)

Titular Bishop of Tigamibena (1972.07.30 – 1973.08.18)

Vicar Apostolic of Cape Palmas (Liberia) (1972.07.30 – 1973.08.18)

Bishop Nicholas Grimley, S.M.A.
(1962.05.07 – 1972.07.30)

Born:	1917.08.18 (Ireland)
Ordained Priest:	1954.02.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.07.25
Died:	1995.06.09 († 77)

Vicar Apostolic of Cape Palmas (Liberia) (1962.05.07 – 1972.07.30)

Titular Bishop of Thuburbo minus (1962.05.07 – 1995.06.09)

Prefects Apostolic of Cape Palmas (Roman Rite)

Fr. Francis Carroll, S.M.A. (later Archbishop)
(1950.10.27 – 1960.12.20)

Born:	1912.06.12 (Ireland)
Ordained Priest:	1936.12.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1961.05.21
Died:	1980.10.10 († 68)

Prefect Apostolic of Cape Palmas (Liberia) (1950.10.27 – 1960.12.20)

Titular Bishop of Sozopolis in Hæmimonto (1960.12.20 – 1964.01.14)

Vicar Apostolic of Monrovia (Liberia) (1960.12.20 – 1976.10.28)

Apostolic Internuncio to Liberia (1961.11.09 – 1966.03.07)

Titular Archbishop of Gabula (1964.01.14 – 1980.10.10)

Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Liberia (1966.03.07 – 1979.08.25)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Cape Palmas, Maryland

Monrovia (↖), Gbarnga (↖), Man (↑)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 31,760 km²

Population: 189,500 Catholics (41.4% of 457,300 total)

Pastoral Centres: 10 parishes, 10 missions

Personnel: 25 priests (23 diocesan, 2 religious), 27 religious (3 brothers, 24 sisters), 8 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.01.03

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