Diocese of Cape Palmas
The Diocese of Cape Palmas is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Liberia. Its episcopal see is Cape Palmas. The Diocese of Cape Palmas is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monrovia.
History
- February 2, 1950: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Cape Palmas from the Apostolic Vicariate of Liberia
- May 7, 1962: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Cape Palmas
- December 19, 1981: Promoted as Diocese of Cape Palmas
Bishops
- Prefect Apostolic of Cape Palmas
- * Father Francis Carroll, S.M.A., appointed Vicar Apostolic of Monrovia; future Archbishop
- Vicars Apostolic of Cape Palmas
- * Bishop Nicholas Grimley, S.M.A.
- * Bishop Patrick Kla Juwle
- * Bishop Boniface Nyema Dalieh ; see below
- Bishops of Cape Palmas
- * Bishop Boniface Nyema Dalieh ; see above
- * Bishop Andrew J. Karnley
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Benedict Dotu Sekey, appointed Bishop of Gbarnga in 1986