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Dominic Kodwo Andoh

Roman Catholic archbishop (1929-2013)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ1237602 ↗
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Dominic Kodwo Andoh (May 4, 1929 – May 17, 2013) was the Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Accra, Ghana.

Ordained to the priesthood on 23 December 1956. Andoh was consecrated bishop on October 3, 1971, enthroned archbishop in July 1993 and retired in March 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dominic Kodwo Andoh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.