Sarbah, John Etannyiedur
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[Although the first attempt to introduce the Roman Catholic Church was undertaken in the coastal villages of the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1482 by Catholic Portuguese merchants and explorers, it was not until 1880 that a more serious attempt was made to found the Roman Catholic Church. This new attempt started ten years after the Propaganda Fide (Congregation for the Propagation of Faith) had been established on the Gold Coast as a Prefecture Apostolic, entrusting it to the Society of African Missions in furtherance of its mandate to ensure the continuous growth of missions.
As a result, Fathers August Moreau and Eugene Murat were the first missionaries sent by the society to the Gold Coast to propagate the Catholic faith. Soon upon their arrival at Elmina in 1880, the missionaries of the Society of African Missions embarked on an aggressive mission to evangelize the Gold Coast, beginning with attempts at planting churches in and around Elmina and Cape Coast. The missionaries administered sacraments and oversaw the founding of schools and hospitals with the help of the lay faithful.]
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