OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 17, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father erected the ecclesiastical province of Kumasi (area 5,118, population 2,000,000, Catholics 200,000, priests 46, religious 88), Ghana, dividing it from the ecclesiastical province of Cape Coast, Ghana, and assigning to it as suffragans the dioceses of Obuasi, Goaso, Sunyani and Konongo-Mampong. He appointed Bishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong of Kumasi as first metropolitan archbishop of the new ecclesiastical province.

ECE; NER;...;...;SARPONG ;VIS;20020117;Word: 70;