[1] A second attempt in 1855 by missionaries from Barbados was more successful; the Reverend James Humble Leacock landed with a lay assistant, John Duport, and in 1856 built the first church, St. James, in Fallanjhia in the Rio Pongas area.
[1] Although Leacock died that year, Duport was later ordained by the Bishop of Sierra Leone.
[1] In 1951, it was one of the five dioceses (the others being Accra, Lagos, Niger and Sierra Leone) which together formed the new Province of West Africa.
[1] Thomas Willy Makole, a Guinean, became its first bishop, though he died the following year.
[1] Jacques Boston became the third Guinean bishop of the diocese in 2013, succeeding Albert Gomez.