Joseph Kwaku Afrifah-Agyekum

Styles of Joseph Kwaku Afrifah-Agyekum
Reference style	Your Lordship The Most Reverend
Spoken style	His Lordship
Religious style	Bishop

Joseph Kwaku Afrifah-Agyekum (born 22 Dember 1954) is a Ghanaian Catholic prelate who is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Koforidua in the Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Province of Accra in Ghana. He previosly served as a priest of the same catholic diocese from 6 July 1992. He was appointed bishop by Pope Benedict XVI on 12 April 2006. He was consecrated as bishop and installed at Koforidua, Ghana on 1 Jully 2006.

He was born on 22 December 1954 at Akim Swedru, Eastern Region, Archdiocese of Accra, in Ghana. He studied philosophy and theology at seminary. He was ordained a priest on 17 July 1983 by Dominic Kodwo Andoh, Bishop of Accra. He holds a Doctorate in sacred liturgy awarded by the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm, in Rome, where he studied from 1986 until 1992.^[1][2][3]

Joseph Kwaku Afrifah-Agyekum was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Accra on 17 July 1983. When the Diocese of Koforidua was created on 6 July 1992, he was incardinated in the new diocese. He served as priest until 12 April 2006.^[1][2][3]

As a priest, he served in various roles and locations including:^[2][3]

• Assistant priest at Accra Cathedral from 1983 until 1985.
• Parish priest at St. Peter's Parish in Osu from 1985 until 1986.
• Studies at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm, in Rome leading to a doctorate in liturgy from 1986 until 1992.
• Parish priest at St. George's parish, Koforidua from 1992 until 1993.
• Administrator of the cathedral at Koforidua from 1992 until 1993.
• Vicar general of Koforidua Diocese from 1992 until 1993.
• Diocesan administrator of Koforidua Diocese from 2005 until 2006.^[2][3]

On 12 April 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Koforidua. He succeeded Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle who had been elevated to Archbishop of Accra the year before, on 30 March 2005.^[1][2][3] He was consecrated bishop by Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, Archbishop of Accra assisted by Peter Kwasi Sarpong, Archbishop of Kumasi and Gregory Eebolawola Kpiebaya, Archbishop of Tamale.^[1] He encourages unity among the Catholics in his diocese.^[4]

At their 4th General Assembly held in Abuja, from the 2 May 2022 until 9 May 2022, the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA), elected The Most Reverend Joseph Afrifah-Agyekum, Bishop of Koforidua Diocese in Ghana as the Vice President of the organization.^[5] In May 2025 at the 5th General Assembly of RECOWA, the entire leadership was re-elected for another 3 years.^[6]

• Catholic Church in Ghana

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