Il Cardinale Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Cancelliere della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze e della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali, Prefetto emerito del Dicastero per il Servizio dello Sviluppo Umano Integrale; Arcivescovo emerito di Cape Coast (Ghana), primo Cardinale nativo del Ghana, è nato a Nsuta-Wassaw, diocesi di Sekondi-Takoradi, l'11 ottobre
Dal al ha frequentato il «St. Theresa's Seminary», in Amisano; dal al il «St. Peter's Regional Seminary», in Pedu.
Il 20 luglio è stato ordinato sacerdote per l’Arcidiocesi Cape Coast, nella Cattedrale St. Francis De Sales, dall'Arcivescovo John Kodwo Amissah.
Ha poi compiuto gli studi di specializzazione in Sacra Scrittura al Pontificio Istituto Biblico di Roma, negli anni per la Licenza e negli anni per il Dottorato. In precedenza aveva ottenuto i master in Divinity e in Teologia presso il «St. Anthony-on-Hudson», Conv. Franciscan Seminary, New York , dove aveva soggiornato negli anni
Negli anni e ha insegnato nel «St. Theresa's Seminary»; dal al è stato professore di Sacra Scrittura e Vice-Rettore del «St. Peter's Seminary»; nel contempo è stato docente part-time all'Università di Cape Coast, Facoltà
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Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:
Archbishop Dominic Kodwo Andoh &#; () Archbishop of Accra
Archbishop John Kodwo Amissah &#; () Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop William Thomas Porter, S.M.A. &#; () Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop Richard Joseph Downey &#; () Archbishop of Liverpool, England
Francis Alphonsus CardinalBourne &#; () Archbishop of Westminster, England
Herbert Alfred Henry CardinalVaughan &#; () Archbishop of Westminster, England
Archbishop Henry Edward Manning &#; () Archbishop of Westminster, England
Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B. &#; () Bishop of Birmingham, England
Bishop John Briggs &#; () Titular Bishop of Dragobitia (Drago)
Bishop Thomas Penswick &#; () Titular Bishop of Europus
Bishop William Poynter &#; () Titular Bishop of Alia
Bishop John Douglass &#; () Titular Bishop of Centuria
Bishop William Gibson &#; () Titu
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Peter Turkson is a Ghanaian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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October 11,
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Universities
Pontifical Biblical Institute
St. Teresa's Seminary
St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary
University at Albany
SUNY
Birth Place
Wassaw Nsuta, Western Ghana
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Catholicism
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Male
Sun Sign
Libra
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Wassaw Nsuta, Western Ghana
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Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is a senior ecclesiastical leader and the first Ghanaian Priest Cardinal to serve the Roman Catho
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Archbishop emeritus of Cape Coast (Ghana), was born on 11 October in Nsuta Wassaw, Ghana.
He was ordained for the Archdiocese of Cape Coast on 20 July and did doctoral studies in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome. He taught at St Theresa’s Minor Seminary and St Peter’s Major Seminary.
On 6 October he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Coast and ordained on 27 March , and he was created and proclaimed Cardinal by St. John Paul II in the Consistory of 21 October , of the Title of San Liborio (St. Liborius).
Cardinal Turkson was President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference () and member of the Pontifical Commission for Methodist-Catholic Dialogue; Chancellor of the Catholic University College of Ghana; member of the National Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environment; member of the Board of Directors of the Central Regional Development Committee and treasurer of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
He is a member of the Congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith,
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