One of Africa's most energetic Church leaders

Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson

Function: Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana

Title: Cardinal Priest of St. Liborius

Birthdate: Oct 11, 1948	Country: Ghana

Elevated: Oct 21, 2003	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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One of Africa's most energetic Church leaders
Apr 17, 2005
The Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, the 55-year-old Archbishop of Cape Coast, is one of Africa's most energetic Church leaders, a rising star who has been brought into the College at a tender age.

(The Tablet, 23 April 2005) Ghana's first cardinal seems shocked by the speed of his ascent.

"God must have a faster timetable than mine", he said in a statement, recalling that in 1992, when he was still working on his doctorate degree, the Pope named him archbishop of Cape Coast.

Four years later, his colleagues elected him president of the Ghana Bishops' Conference. "Now this morning, here I am being given this news, and the only thing I can do is to say, 'Lord, have your way with me.

Give me the ear and heart to go the way you want'". Too young for now, but one to keep an eye on.

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