Daniel Yinkah Sarfo is a Ghanaian Anglican bishop. He has been a

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since September 2012, and was Archbishop

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of the Church of the Province of West Africa (CPWA), since 13 March 2014 until 3 March 2019.

Education

He studied for the ministry at Trinity Theological Seminary, in Accra,

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. He moved to the

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, where he received a

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in Mission Studies at the

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, and a Doctorate in Theology at the

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, in Lampeter.

Ecclesiastical career

He was ordained as a deacon on 26 August 1979, and as a priest on 14 September 1980. He was a parish priest until his appointment to be archdeacon of Sunyani in 1986, and became a Canon (priest), canon of Kumasi cathedral in 1994. He was a forces chaplain in the Ghanaian Army, holding the rank of major when he was elected the third bishop of the Diocese of Kumasi on 20 November 1998. He was consecrated on 14 March 1999. Sarfo was elected the first Metropolitan archbishop of the Internal Province of Ghana on its creation on 29 September 2012. He automatically succeeded Solomon Tilewa Johnson, after his unexpected death, as Archbishop Primate of CPWA, by virtue of being the surviving metropolitan (according to the 2012 adaptation of the CPWA constitution). He was consecrated the 10th Primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa on 13 March 2014.

Beliefs

Unlike his two predecessors, he is seen as a supporter of reconciliation between the liberal and conservative wings of the Anglican Communion. He still attended the 3rd Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America, in Wheaton, Illinois, Wheaton, Illinois, in June 2017. He also attended the Global South (Anglican), Global South meeting, in 8–9 September 2017, in Cairo, Egypt, and was one of the signants of their communiqué, with nine other Anglican Primates, including Foley Beach, from the Anglican Church in North America.Global South Primates' Communiqué, Global South Anglican, 11 September 2017
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References

External links

Primates of the Anglican Communion - Primate of West Africa, Anglican Ink, 6 January 2016
Living people 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ghana 21st-century Anglican bishops in Ghana 21st-century Anglican archbishops Year of birth missing (living people) Anglican bishops of Kumasi Anglican archbishops of West Africa {{anglican-bishop-stub