Diocese of Yendi
Diocese of Yendi | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Ghana |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Tamale |
Diocesan bishop | Vincent Boi-Nai SVD |
founding | 1999 |
surface | 19,160 km² |
Parishes | 14 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Residents | 771,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics | 13,324 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
proportion of | 1.7% |
Diocesan priest | 18 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious priest | 12 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics per priest | 444 |
Friars | 17 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious sisters | 29 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes |
address | PO Box 40129, Yendi, NR, Ghana |
The Bistum Yendi ( lat. : Dioecesis Yendensis ) is an in Ghana preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Yendi . It includes the municipalities of Yendi, Gushiegu, Karago, Bimbilla, Saboba-Chereponi, Zabzugu-Tatal in the Northern Region .
history
Pope John Paul II founded it with the Apostolic Constitution Sollertem sane on March 16, 1999 from the cession of territory by the Archdiocese of Tamale , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese. The local ordinary Vincent Boi-Nai has been SVD since it was founded .