Photograph of Mother Agatha Ryan, S.B.S. and Bishop Joseph Bowers
Photograph of Mother Agatha Ryan, S.B.S. (Right) and Bishop Joseph Bowers (Left), on the occasion of Bowers receiving an Honorary PhD. Joseph Oliver Bowers, SVD (28 March 1910 – 5 November 2012) was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church from Dominica, who went to West Africa to serve in the then Go...
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1953
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| Summary: | Photograph of Mother Agatha Ryan, S.B.S. (Right) and Bishop Joseph Bowers (Left), on the occasion of Bowers receiving an Honorary PhD. Joseph Oliver Bowers, SVD (28 March 1910 – 5 November 2012) 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. Mother Agatha Ryan, a Sister of the Blessed Sacrament, was the First President of Xavier University of Louisiana 1925-1955. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic order of nuns. It was founded in 1891 by Saint Katharine Drexel (Foundress of Xavier University of Louisiana) under the name Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. It is a Catholic religious institute. |
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