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The Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Coast (Latin : a Litore Aureo) is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Cape Coast in Ghana.
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Coast (Latin : a Litore Aureo) is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Cape Coast in Ghana.
The Archdiocese has been[ when? ] generous in supplying priests for underserved areas of the United States; for example, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria in Texas, 16 of the 64 priests are from Ghana. Many have been incardinated into the archdiocese, have become U.S. citizens, and serve as parish pastors.[ citation needed ]
The seat of the archbishop is St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Cape Coast.
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