Bishop Charles Kweku Sam †

Deceased

Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Feb 1940		Born
23 Jul 1967	27.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
30 Nov 1981	41.8	Appointed	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
6 Jan 1982	41.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
20 Feb 1982	42.0	Installed	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
13 Jan 1998	57.9	Died	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

MicroData Summary for Charles Kweku Sam
(WikiData: Q64744860)
Bishop Charles Kweku Sam (born 2 Feb 1940, died 13 Jan 1998) Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi

Event Place
Birth Place Amuni
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 30.4 years
a bishop for 16.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Lucas (Luiz) Moreira Neves, O.P. †
Titular Archbishop of Feradi Maius

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop John Baptist Attakruh (1989)

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 71, Number 5,689

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