Complex sentence: He became the second African appointed by Pope Benedict to lead a Vatican dicastary after Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana was appointed as president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in 2009.
Split into simpler sentences: He became the second African appointed by Pope Benedict to lead a Vatican dicastary. The first was Peter Cardinal Turkson of Ghana who was appointed as president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in 2009.