Archbishop John Bonaventure Kwofie, C.S.Sp.

Archbishop of Accra, Ghana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Apr 1958		Born
2 Aug 1987	29.2	Professed	Member of Congregation of the Holy Spirit
23 Jul 1988	30.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit
3 Jul 2014	56.1	Appointed	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
13 Sep 2014	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
2 Jan 2019	60.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Accra, Ghana
1 Mar 2019	60.8	Installed	Archbishop of Accra, Ghana

MicroData Summary for John Bonaventure Kwofie
(WikiData: Q17322605)
Archbishop John Bonaventure Kwofie C.S.Sp. (born 26 Apr 1958) Archbishop of Accra

Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Apowa
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Cathedral, Takoradi, Diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Accra.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson
Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Jean-Marie Antoine Joseph Speich
Titular Archbishop of Sulci
Archbishop Matthias Kobena Nketsiah
Archbishop of Cape Coast

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson (1993)
Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio
Archbishop Dominic Kodwo Andoh † (1971)
Archbishop of Accra
Archbishop John Kodwo Amissah † (1957)
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop William Thomas Porter, S.M.A. † (1933)
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop Richard Joseph Downey † (1928)
Archbishop of Liverpool, England
Francis Alphonsus Cardinal Bourne † (1896)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Herbert Alfred Henry Cardinal Vaughan † (1872)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Archbishop Henry Edward Manning † (1865)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B. † (1846)
Bishop of Birmingham, England
Bishop John Briggs † (1833)
Titular Bishop of Dragobitia (Drago)
Bishop Thomas Penswick † (1824)
Titular Bishop of Europus
Bishop William Poynter † (1803)
Titular Bishop of Alia
Bishop John Douglass † (1790)
Titular Bishop of Centuria
Bishop William Gibson † (1790)
Titular Bishop of Achantus
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gabriel Mendy, C.S.Sp. (2018)
Bishop John Baptist Attakruh (2021)
Bishop John Kobina Louis (2023)
Bishop Anthony Narh Asare (2023)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Apowa
Ordained Bishop	Open Air, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Cathedral, Takoradi, Diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 3 Jul 2014
bp: CB, 4 Jul 2014
ob: CB, 31 Jul 2014
c2+: CB, 13 Sep 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 220, Number 18,285
ab: Bollettino, 2 Jan 2019
i: AM, 23 Feb 2019

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