Goaso is the diocesan headquarters of the **Catholic Diocese of Goaso**, in the Ahafo Region of Ghana — and it is also the regional capital of Ahafo itself. The Diocese of Goaso was carved out of the Diocese of Sunyani and erected on **24 October 1997** by Pope John Paul II, with Goaso town as its seat. Its cathedral is the **Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua** (St. Anthony's Cathedral), and the diocese covers the Ahafo and parts of the Bono East areas — roughly the territory of the old Ahafo administrative zone. Its first bishop was **Most Rev. Peter Kwaku Atuahene**, who led the diocese from its creation until his retirement; he was succeeded by **Most Rev. Bishop Yaw Kusi** (consecrated in the 2010s). The diocese runs parishes, schools, health facilities and pastoral programmes across the Ahafo enclave, and it is a suffragan see under the **Ecclesiastical Province of Kumasi**, whose metropolitan is the Archbishop of Kumasi. Goaso itself sits in the **Asunafo North District** (now within Ahafo Region, which was created in 2019 when the region was split from Brong-Ahafo). It is a cocoa and timber town on the road between Sunyani and Mim/Kenyasi, and it became the capital of the new Ahafo Region in 2019 — so Goaso carries a double distinction: **regional capital of Ahafo** and **seat of the Catholic Diocese of Goaso**. If you meant a different "Goaso" — the town versus the diocese versus the regional capital — tell me which angle you want (history of the see, list of bishops, parishes, schools, or the town itself) and I'll go deeper. And if you're after the *current* bishop or the very latest diocesan news as of today, that's a fast-moving detail I'd rather verify than guess — say the word and I'll search deeper.