Kumasi gets new Archbishop
Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Most Rev. Gabriel Justice Anokye,as Metropolitan of Kumasi, who was until then the Bishop of Obuasi.
The news was released from the Apostolic Nunciature in Ghana by His Excellency Archbishop Leon B. Kalenga, Apostolic Nuncio.
Most Rev. Gabriel Justice Anokye was born on May 27, 1960 at Emmena, in the Archdiocese of Kumasi. His family originates from Nsuta-Asuagu, a town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is the youngest child of a very good and pious family which is blessed with many children.
He had his elementary education at Emmena, Appiadu and Boadi from 1966-1974. He started his Seminary Formation at St. Hubert Minor Seminary in Kumasi and continued at St. Peter’s Regional in Cape Coast (1982-1984) and at the Facultes Catholiques de Kinshasa, Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo from 1964-1989).
He was ordained Priest on July 16, 1988 for the Archdiocese of Kumasi. After his ordination, he went back to the Democratic Republic of Congo to complete his Master’s Degree programmes in Theology.
In August 1994, he was sent for further studies in France where he earned a Ph.D in Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and another Ph.D in History of Religions, and Religious Anthropology at the Sorbonne Paris IV State University from 1994-1999).
Ministries and Offices held:
1989-1992 Assistant Priest, St. Mary’s Church, South Suntreso; Diocesan Youth Chaplain; Bishop’s Personal Secretary.
19992-1994 Professor at St. Peter’s Regional Seminary, Cape Coast.
1999-2003 Professor and Acting Rector of the St. Peter’s Regional Seminary, Cape Coast.
He was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Kumasi on January 17, 2004 and promoted Residential Bishop of Obuasi on March 26, 2008 up to this date.