Massacre, British Leeward Islands (present-day Dominica)
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5 November 2012(2012-11-05) (aged 102) Agormanya, Eastern Region, Ghana
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Holy Spirit Cathedral, Accra
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Joseph Oliver Bowers, SVD (28 March 1910 – 5 November 2012) was a prelate of the Catholic Church from Dominica, who served as Bishop of St. Johns–Basseterre from 1971 to 1981. He previously served as Bishop of Accra on the then Gold Coast, beginning in 1953. He was the first Black Catholic bishop to be consecrated in the United States in the 20th century,[1] and the first ever to ordain African-American Catholic priests.
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.[2] At the time of his death in Ghana, aged 102, he was the second-oldest Catholic bishop and the oldest from the Caribbean.[3]
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^"Catholic Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers has died at the age of 102", TheDominican.net, 6 November 2012.
^"Oldest Caribbean bishop dies - Nov 11" Archived 23 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Catholic News, 10 November 2012.
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