Anglican Communion News Service

[ACNS source: CAPA] The Rt Revd Justice Ofei Akrofi is the new Archbishop-elect of the Church of the Province of West Africa.

Bishop Akrofi, presently the Bishop of Accra, was elected last week to replace outgoing Primate of West Africa, the Most Revd Robert G A Okine.

Bishop Akrofi was born in 1942 and studied in Ghana, Central Connecticut States University and Yale, where he graduated with a Masters Degree in Divinity in 1976. He taught at the University of Ghana and Cape Coast University before serving as Dean of the Holy Trinity Cathedral and later as Bishop of Accra since 1996.

He is married to Dr Maria Eugenia Akrofi, a medic, and they have two children.

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