Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong

Archbishop Emeritus of Kumasi, Ghana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Feb 1933		Born
11 Dec 1959	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kumasi, Ghana
20 Nov 1969	36.7	Appointed	Bishop of Kumasi, Ghana
8 Mar 1970	37.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kumasi, Ghana
17 Jan 2002	68.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana
26 Mar 2008	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana

MicroData Summary for Peter Kwasi Sarpong
(VIAF: 56651758; WikiData: Q1417844)
Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong (born 26 Feb 1933) Archbishop Emeritus of Kumasi

Ad Limina - April 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Maase-Offinso
Ordained Bishop St.-Pierre, Cathedral, Kumasi, Diocese of Kumasi

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Kumasi.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Kodwo Amissah †
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph Amihere Essuah †
Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi
Bishop Peter Poreku Dery †
Bishop of Wa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Matthias Kobena Nketsiah (1970)
Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu (1975)
Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye (1988)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi (2003)
Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye (2004)
Archbishop Matthias Kobena Nketsiah (2007)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Rudolph A. Akanlu † (1973)
Bishop James Kwadwo Owusu † (1973)
Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson (1993)
Bishop Joseph Kwaku Afrifah-Agyekum (2006)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Maase-Offinso
Ordained Bishop	St.-Pierre, Cathedral, Kumasi, Diocese of Kumasi

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 26 Mar 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 10, Number 496

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