Diocese of Gbarnga, Liberia 🇱🇷

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Gbarnga / Gbarngan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Monrovia

Neighbouring Dioceses: Monrovia (↙), Kenema (←), Guéckédou (↑), N’Zérékoré (↗), Man (→), Cape Palmas (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1986.11.17: Established as Diocese of Gbarnga / Gbarngan(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Monrovia and became suffragan of Monrovia)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2011.03.21 – ...):

Bishop Anthony Fallah Borwah (59)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Liberia

Ordinaries

Bishops of Gbarnga (Roman Rite)

Bishop Anthony Fallah Borwah (59)
(2011.03.21 – ...)

Bishop of Gbarnga (Liberia)
President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Liberia

Born:	1966.10.03 (Wodu, Liberia)
Ordained Priest:	1996.09.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.06.11

Priest of Monrovia (Liberia) (1996.09.05 – 2011.03.21)

Bishop of Gbarnga (Liberia) (2011.03.21 – ...)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Liberia (2017 – ...)

Fr. Chris Brennan, S.M.A.
(Apostolic Administrator 2009.07 – 2011.03.21)

Bishop Lewis Jerome Zeigler (later Archbishop)
(2002.05.30 – 2009.07.11)

Born:	1944.01.04 (Harrisburg, Liberia)
Ordained Priest:	1974.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.11.09
Died:	2022.08.12 (Monrovia, Liberia † 78)

Priest of Monrovia (Liberia) (1974.12.22 – 1986.11.17)

Priest of Gbarnga (Liberia) (1986.11.17 – 2002.05.30)

Bishop of Gbarnga (Liberia) (2002.05.30 – 2009.07.11)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Liberia (2005.03 – 2017)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Monrovia (Liberia) (2009.07.11 – 2011.02.12)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Monrovia (Liberia) (2011.02.12 – 2021.06.07)

Bishop Benedict Dotu Sekey
(1986.11.17 – 2000.12.13)

Born:	1940.08.10 (Accra, Ghana)
Ordained Priest:	1967.08.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1987.01.06
Died:	2000.12.13 († 60)

Bishop of Gbarnga (Liberia) (1986.11.17 – 2000.12.13)

President of Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Gambia and Sierra Leone / ITCABIC (1995 – 1998)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Gbarnga, Bong

Monrovia (↙), Kenema (←), Guéckédou (↑), N’Zérékoré (↗), Man (→), Cape Palmas (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 30,305 km²

Population: 21,185 Catholics (1.3% of 1,666,200 total)

Pastoral Centres: 16 parishes

Personnel: 17 priests (11 diocesan, 6 religious), 29 religious (14 brothers, 15 sisters), 8 seminarians