The Most Reverend James Kwadwo Owusu, Catholic Bishop of Sunyani was on Friday reported dead through a motor accident at Portroase near Kibi in the Eastern Region.
He was returning to Sunyani after a medical check-up in Accra, when his car collided with an on-coming vehicle that was over-taking another one.
According a GNA report the Secretariat of the Catholic Diocese in Sunyani was quite and the priests holding a closed-door meeting when it’s reporters visited.
The late Bishop Owusu, a native of Kwasibuorkrom in the Jaman District in Brong-Ahafo, was appointed in 1973 as the first Bishop of Sunyani Catholic Diocese, which was carved out of the Kumasi Diocese.
The Bishop who was due for retirement, celebrated his silver jubilee as Bishop in 1998 and December 8, this year, marked his 45th anniversary as a Catholic Priest. Bishop Owusu was a Major in the Army as Chaplain before his election as a Bishop.
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