KETA, DIOCESE of. - In British Togoland, suffragan of the archdiocese of Cape Coast (formerly the apostolic vicariate of the Gold Coast), entrusted to the Society of African Missions. Area: approx. 40,000 sq. km.
The territory of British Togoland was detached from the apostolic vicariates of the Gold Coast and of Togo (now Lomé [v.]) and erected as an apostolic vicariate under the name of Lower Volta on 15 March 1923. On 18 Apr. 1950, upon the establishment of the episcopal hierarchy in British West Africa, it was raised to a diocese under the name of K. (Ketaensis), after the city in which the Ordinary resides.
It has a population of approx. 569,000 inhabitants; 75,554 Catholics; 2,383 catechumens; 69,000 Protestants; 14,000 Muslims; approx. 408,000 pagans; 1 indigenous priest; 28 foreign priests; 2 foreign lay brothers; 3 indigenous and 15 foreign nuns; 267 catechists; 285 teachers; 2 major and 4 minor seminarians; 13 principal and 215 secondary mission stations; 33 churches and 166 chapels; 2 dispensaries with 76,512 annual consultations; 11 orphanages with 319 orphans of both sexes; 153 elementary schools with 9,787 boys and 2,390 girls; 28 secondary schools with 2,860 boys and 435 girls; 2 vocational schools with 46 pupils, and 1 teacher-training school with 51 pupils. In the last year there were 2,634 adult baptisms. There are lay religious confraternities and flourishing Catholic Action associations.