name: Peter K.A. Turkson
birth_date: 1948-10-10 00:00:00
genres: Religion
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about: Kardinaali Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, M.Div. (St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary, Rensselaer, New York; M.A., Theology, St. Anthony-on-Hudson), is an ordained priest and consecrated bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, created Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio in 2003 by Pope John Paul II, making him the the first Ghanaian cardinal. He was president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 2009 until Francis named him the first prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development at the start of 2017. He remains a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the Pontifical Kardinaali Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, M.Div. (St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary, Rensselaer, New York; M.A., Theology, St. Anthony-on-Hudson), is an ordained priest and consecrated bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, created Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio in 2003 by Pope John Paul II, making him the the first Ghanaian cardinal. He was president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 2009 until Francis named him the first prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development at the start of 2017. He remains a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, and the Congregation for Catholic Education.One of the cardinal electors who participated in the papal conclave of 2005 that elected Benedict XVI and the papal conclave of 2013 that elected Francis, Cardinal Turkson is widely regarded as papabile—a candidate for election to the papacy —himself. ...more