Bishop Joseph Francis Kweku Essien

Bishop Emeritus of Wiawso, Ghana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Nov 1945		Born
10 Jul 1977	31.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
22 Dec 1999	54.0	Appointed	Bishop of Wiawso, Ghana
25 Mar 2000	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wiawso, Ghana
26 Jan 2023	77.1	Retired	Bishop of Wiawso, Ghana
26 Jan 2023	77.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Wiawso, Ghana
21 Apr 2023	77.4	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Wiawso, Ghana

MicroData Summary
Joseph Francis Kweku Essien
Bishop Joseph Francis Kweku Essien
(born 25 Nov 1945)
Bishop Emeritus of Wiawso

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

Event Place
Birth Place Apowa
Ordained Bishop Saint Joseph the Worker, Cathedral, Wiawso, Diocese of Wiawso

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Wiawso.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Dominic Kodwo Andoh †
Archbishop of Accra
Archbishop André Pierre Louis Dupuy
Titular Archbishop of Selsea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (1993)
Archbishop of Cape Coast
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 Samuel Nkuah-Boateng (2023)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1707442

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Number 13,724
r: Bollettino, 26 Jan 2023
aadm: Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 115, Page 814

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