Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi

Bishop of Sunyani, Ghana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Aug 1957		Born
27 Jul 1985	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sunyani, Ghana
14 Apr 2003	45.6	Appointed	Bishop of Sunyani, Ghana
28 Jun 2003	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sunyani, Ghana

MicroData Summary
Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi
Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi
(born 11 Aug 1957)
Bishop of Sunyani

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

Event Place
Birth Place Wamanafo

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Sunyani.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop James Kwadwo Owusu †
Bishop of Sunyani
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong
Archbishop of Kumasi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Bishop Lucas Abadamloora †
Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong (1970)
Archbishop of Kumasi
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 Dominic Nyarko Yeboah (2008)
Bishop John Kobina Louis (2023)
Bishop Anthony Narh Asare (2023)
Bishop Francis Bomansaan, M. Afr. (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1909541

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,417

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