Archbishop Thomas Kwaku Mensah †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Kumasi, Ghana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Feb 1935		Born
3 Jun 1973	38.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kumasi, Ghana
3 Mar 1995	60.0	Appointed	Bishop of Obuasi, Ghana
28 May 1995	60.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Obuasi, Ghana
26 Mar 2008	73.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana
15 May 2012	77.2	Retired	Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana
10 Apr 2016	81.1	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Kumasi, Ghana

MicroData Summary for Thomas Kwaku Mensah
(WikiData: Q1517593)
Archbishop Thomas Kwaku Mensah (born 2 Feb 1935, died 10 Apr 2016) Archbishop Emeritus of Kumasi

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

Event Place
Birth Place Assamang
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Independence Square, Accra, Archdiocese of Accra

a priest for 42.8 years
a bishop for 20.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu
Bishop of Ho
Archbishop Gregory Eebolawola Kpiebaya †
Archbishop of Tamale

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Yaw Afoakwah (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Assamang
Ordained Bishop	Open Air, Independence Square, Accra, Archdiocese of Accra

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 26 Mar 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142, Number 12,559
r: Bollettino, 15 May 2012
d: CB, 12 Apr 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)

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