BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HO DIOCESAN HEALTH SERVICE

Background

The Catholic Church’s involvement in health can be traced to Jesus Christ the founder who healed the sick as part of his ministry to indicate that the Kingdom of God is among us. In response to his mandate in the Great Commission, he charged his disciples to go and heal the sick. This is primarily why the church is into health to continue the healing ministry of Christ.

Health services came to be part and parcel of the Church through the early Missionaries who saw the healing as part of the evangelization. In those times, there were no organized health institutions. As the Missionaries operated from Mission houses they offered first aid to the indigenous people as well. With time, this service developed and organized health institutions began to spring up.

The Catholic Diocese of Ho each year organizes capacity-building sessions for all Parish Pastoral Council members. The aim of this is to equip them with the necessary skills they needed to work more effectively for the growth of the church and in particular, the Catholic Diocese of Ho. This training session was scheduled to be done on a deanery basis. On 4th June 2021, the first session in the year was held at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Ho-Kpevele for all the Ho deanery PPC members. Today the 18th of June, Hohoe deanery will also part take in the same workshop and that of the Kpando Deanery will come off later on Wednesday 30th June, 2021 at the Immaculate Conception Parish, Kpando. All these workshops are being facilitated by Bismark Tay Leadership Solution. 

1. There will be a workshop on diocesan strategic plan tomorrow, 24th October, 2018 at Bishop Konings Guest House. The time is 9:30am. 

2. The installation of the Cathedral Administrator will come off on Sunday, 4th November, 2018 at the Cathedral at exactly 7:00am

3. There will be a Memorial Mass for all deceased Priests and Religious on Tuesday, 6th November, 2018 at 10am prompt.