The Roman Catholic Archdiocese Freetown and Bo (Archidioecesis Liberae Urbis et Boensis) in Sierra Leone was elevated from a diocese on November 11, 1970. On 22 March 2007 Joseph Henry Ganda retired as archbishop of the Archdiocese after 26 years in the post.[1] Edward Tamba Charles was appointed Archbishop in a ceremony at Santanno House, Freetown, in March 2008 by Archbishop George Anthony Sammy, the Apostolic Nuncio to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.[2]
At present, the Archdiocese contains the following dioceses:
However, on Saturday, January 15, 2010, the Vatican Information Service announced that Pope Benedict XVI had erected the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Bo (area 16,208, population 1,092,657, Catholics 50,000, priests 34, religious 59), Sierra Leone, by dividing the current archdiocese of Freetown and Bo, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Freetown. He appointed Father Charles Allieu Matthew Campbell, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Freetown and Bo, spiritual director of St. Paul's Major Seminary in Freetown, as first bishop of the new diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Njala, Sierra Leone in 1961 and ordained a priest in 1986.
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List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Sierra Leone
Roman Catholicism in Sierra Leone