Bishop Joseph Francis Kweku Essien

Bishop of Wiawso

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Nov 1945		Born	Apowa
10 Jul 1977	31.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
22 Dec 1999	54.1	Appointed	Bishop of Wiawso, Ghana
25 Mar 2000	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wiawso, Ghana

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Wiawso.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Dominic Kodwo Andoh
Archbishop André Pierre Louis Dupuy

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Francis Kweku Essien (2000)
Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson (1993)
Archbishop Dominic Kodwo Andoh (1971)
Archbishop John Kodwo Amissah † (1957)
Archbishop William Thomas Porter, S.M.A. † (1933)
Archbishop Richard Downey † (1928)
Francis Alphonsus Cardinal Bourne † (1896)
Herbert Alfred Henry Cardinal Vaughan † (1872)
Henry Edward Cardinal Manning † (1865)
Archbishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B. † (1846)
Bishop John Briggs † (1833)
Bishop Thomas Penswick † (1824)
Bishop William Poynter † (1803)
Bishop John Douglass † (1790)
Bishop William Gibson † (1790)
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Number 13,724

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