Africa

Ghana

Ghana's Catholic Church is one of West Africa's most educated and institutionally developed — shaped by the Swiss Missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word and the White Fathers, it has produced bishops, cardinals, and an outward-looking faith that is reshaping the global Church.

Ghana
Bl. Victor Sabbe (Belgian missionary martyred in Ghana); the countless uncelebrated catechists who built the Ghanaian Church from the ground up
Ghana
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (Oct 7) — widely observed; All Saints Day (Nov 1); major Marian pilgrimage to Kpando shrine
Catholic Population:
4.5 million
Percent Catholic:
14%
Church Status
Growing
Primary Diocese:
Archdiocese of Accra

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