Peter Turkson
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is a Ghanaian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI onOctober 2009. He had served as Archbishop of Cape Coast. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II in 2003, and is widely regarded as papabile.
Turkson was born in Wassaw Nsuta in Western Ghana to a Methodist mother and a Roman Catholic father. He is the fourth child among ten children. His mother sold vegetables in the open market while his father worked as a carpenter. He had a paternal uncle who was a Muslim. He studied at St. Teresas Seminary in the village of Amisano and Pedu before attending St. AnthonyonHudson Seminary in Rensselaer, New York, where he graduated as a Master of Theology. During this time he also took summer coursework at the University at Albany. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop John Amissah onJuly 1975.
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