Wa Bishop is named Cardinal by Pope Francis.

The project, which includes parishes, faith-based organizations, religious women and men, and board doctors and nurses, began providing free medication.

Wa Bishop is named Cardinal by Pope Francis.

The Catholic Church has made Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr of the Wa Catholic Diocese a Cardinal.

He is one of 21 new cardinals selected by Pope Francis who will begin their duties at the Vatican on August, 16 of whom are under the age of 80 and thus eligible to participate in a conclave to decide his successor after his death or resignation.

Bishop Baawobr, a member of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, is well-known throughout Ghana and internationally for several charitable deeds, the most notable of which is his affection for those with mental illnesses who have been abandoned by their family.

Volunteers from the Bishop's project, which cares for people with mental illnesses, began going out on the streets in 2016, the year the Holy Father appointed him Bishop, looking for patients and providing them with care.

The project, which includes parishes, faith-based organizations, religious women and men, and board doctors and nurses, began providing free medication.

In a society where stigmatization of people with mental diseases is widespread, the Bishop is said to have begun using media platforms to raise awareness about mental illnesses.

He was born on June 21, 1959, in Tom-Zendagangn, Ko, in the London District of Ghana's Wa Diocese. From 1965 to 1972, he received his primary education in Tom-Zendagangn, and from 1971 to 1977, he continued his education at the St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary in Wa.

Nandom Secondary School was where he completed his secondary education.

As a Diocesan Seminarian, he entered St. Victor's Major Seminary in Tamale in 1979.

After completing his Philosophical Studies, he felt God's call to be a missionary and joined the Society of Missionaries of Africa (M.Afr.) in 1981.