Bishop John Martin Darko †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Sekondi-Takoradi

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 May 1945		Born	Aboadze
25 Jul 1976	31.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
27 Jun 1998	53.1	Appointed	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
10 Oct 1998	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
14 Dec 2011	66.5	Resigned	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
12 Jan 2013	67.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

a priest for 36.5 years
a bishop for 14.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Dominic Kodwo Andoh
Archbishop of Accra
Archbishop Gregory E. Kpiebaya
Archbishop of Tamale

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (1993)
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop Dominic Kodwo Andoh (1971)
Archbishop of Accra
Archbishop John Kodwo Amissah † (1957)
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop William Thomas Porter, S.M.A. † (1933)
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop Richard 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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 153, Number 13,442
r: Bollettino, 14 Dec 2011
obp: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 155, Additions/Corrections (front)
d: CB, 14 Jan 2013