Archbishop Yinkah Sarfo honoured
The Archbishop of the Internal Province of Ghana, Archbishop Dr Daniel Yinkah Sarfo, has been appointed the 10th Primate and Metropolitan Archbishop of the Church of the Province of West Africa (Anglican Communion), according to a statement issued at a press conference in Accra.
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This follows the death of the 9th Primate, Most Rev. Dr Tilewa Johnson in Fajara, The Gambia.
Archbishop Dr Yinkah Sarfo, who is also the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kumasi, thus, becomes one of the 38 Primates of the Anglican Communion.
The late Dr Johnson was laid to rest at the Bishopscourt in Banjul, The Gambia, after a funeral mass on February 21, this year.
Profile of Archbishop Dr Sarfo
Archbishop Dr Yinkah Sarfo was ordained to the Diaconate on August 26, 1979 and to Priesthood on Holy Cross Sunday, September 14, 1980. He was consecrated bishop of Kumasi on March 14, 1999 and enthroned as diocesan bishop on March 21, 1999.
He was appointed acting archdeacon of Sunyani from 1986, Honorary Canon of Kumasi at the St Cyprian Cathedral in 1994, a member of the Anglican Communion Working Group on Urban Ministry (Urbanisation) from 2004 to 2006 and presiding bishop of the Joint Anglican Diocien Committee (JADC). He has been the chairman of the Local Council of Christian Churches in Kumasi from 2009 to date.
On November 20, 1998, he was elected as third Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kumasi and, consequently, honourably retired from the Ghana Armed Forces with the rank of Major on March 9, 1999.
On September 28, 2012, he was elected first archbishop for the Administrative Province of Ghana.
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He has to his credit four publications. These include: “The role of the church in the empowerment of Ghanaian women for development” and “The role of the church in national reconciliation and integrity and national development”.