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Peter Cardinal K. A. Turkson was born in Nsuta Wassaw in the Western Region of Ghana on 11th October 1948. He was ordained priest on 20th July 1975 at the Francis de Sales Cathedral at Cape Coast by the late Most Rev. John Kodwo Amissah. His Episcopal Ordination was announced by John Paul II on 21st November, 1992; and he was subsequently ordained and enthroned on 27th March 1993 at the Francis de Sales Cathedral at Cape Coast... Cardinal Turkson, the Primate of the Catholic Church in Ghana, is also the first Ghanaian to be appointed to the Cardinalate of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. His appointment was announced by John Paul II on 28th September, 2003; and he was invested at the Vatican on October 21 and 22, 2003... On 24 October 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Turkson President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Also known as: Cardinal Turkson Fund