Diocese of Obuasi, Ghana

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Obuasi / Obuasien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kumasi

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Thomas

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1995.03.03: Established as Diocese of Obuasi / Obuasien(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Kumasi and became suffragan of Cape Coast)
2001.12.22: Became suffragan of Kumasi

Present Prelates

Bishop (2014.11.22 – ...):

Bishop John Yaw Afoakwa (69)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Obuasi (Roman Rite)

Bishop John Yaw Afoakwa (69)
(2014.11.22 – ...)

Bishop of Obuasi (Ghana)

Illum oportet crescere

Born:	1955.01.26 (Akrokerry, Ghana)
Ordained Priest:	1992.07.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.01.10

Priest of Obuasi (Ghana) (1992.07.11 – 2014.11.22)

Bishop of Obuasi (Ghana) (2014.11.22 – ...)

Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye (63)
(Apostolic Administrator 2012.05.15 – 2014.11.22)

Bishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye (63) (later Archbishop)
(2008.03.26 – 2012.05.15)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi (Ghana)

Non nobis Domine

Born:	1960.05.27 (Emenaa, Ghana)
Ordained Priest:	1988.07.16
Consecrated Bishop:	2004.01.17

Priest of Kumasi (Ghana) (1988.07.16 – 2003.10.30)

Titular Bishop of Cellæ in Mauretania (2003.10.30 – 2008.03.26)

Auxiliary Bishop of Kumasi (Ghana) (2003.10.30 – 2008.03.26)

Bishop of Obuasi (Ghana) (2008.03.26 – 2012.05.15)

Apostolic Administrator of Obuasi (Ghana) (2012.05.15 – 2014.11.22)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi (Ghana) (2012.05.15 – ...)

Second Vice-President of Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (2013.09 – 2019.07.19)

Bishop Thomas Kwaku Mensah (later Archbishop)
(1995.03.03 – 2008.03.26)

Nunc scio

Born:	1935.02.02 (Ghana)
Ordained Priest:	1973.06.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1995.05.28
Died:	2016.04.10 († 81)

Bishop of Obuasi (Ghana) (1995.03.03 – 2008.03.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi (Ghana) (2008.03.26 – 2012.05.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Thomas Cathedral, Obuasi, Ashanti

Kumasi (↑), Konongo–Mampong (↗), Koforidua (→), Cape Coast (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 6,350 km²

Population: 121,466 Catholics (7.8% of 1,552,420 total)

Pastoral Centres: 25 parishes, 20 missions

Personnel: 74 priests (68 diocesan, 6 religious), 39 religious (10 brothers, 29 sisters), 47 seminarians