Archbishop Matthias Kobena Nketsiah

Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Coast, Ghana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1942		Born
19 Jul 1970	28.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cape Coast, Ghana
24 Nov 2006	64.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Coast, Ghana
24 Nov 2006	64.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abaradira
3 Feb 2007	64.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Abaradira
31 May 2010	68.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana
24 Jul 2010	68.2	Installed	Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana
14 Dec 2011	69.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
13 Sep 2014	72.4	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
11 May 2018	76.0	Retired	Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana

MicroData Summary for Matthias Kobena Nketsiah
(WikiData: Q1910069)
Archbishop Matthias Kobena Nketsiah (born 14 Apr 1942) Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Coast

Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kakomdo
Ordained Bishop Pedu Seminary Park, Cape Coast, Archdiocese of Cape Coast

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Cape Coast.

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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong
Bishop of Kumasi
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong
Archbishop of Kumasi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle
Archbishop of Accra
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:
Archbishop John Bonaventure Kwofie, C.S.Sp. (2014)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Kakomdo
Ordained Bishop	Pedu Seminary Park, Cape Coast, Archdiocese of Cape Coast

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 24 Nov 2006
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 188, Number 15,332
ab: Bollettino, 31 May 2010
ab: Bollettino, 14 Dec 2011
r: Bollettino, 11 May 2018

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