Joseph Oliver Bowers
Religious Leader
1910 – 2012
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Who was Joseph Oliver Bowers?
Joseph Oliver Bowers, SVD was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church from Dominica, who went to West Africa to serve in the then Gold Coast in 1939. He is credited with having tripled the Catholic population and parishes in Ghana and for substantially increasing the number of Catholic priests and religious laity in the Diocese of Accra. At the time of his death in Ghana, aged 102, he was the second-oldest Roman Catholic bishop and the oldest from the Caribbean.
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- Born
- Mar 28, 1910
Massacre - Religion
- Catholicism
- Died
- Nov 5, 2012
Eastern Region, Ghana
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on July 23, 2013
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