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Vicariate Apostolic of DonkorkromBishop
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Bishop John Alphonse Asiedu

Vicar Apostolic of Donkorkrom

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Born
May 12, 1962 Adeemmra, Wassa Amenfi East Municipal District, Ghana
Nationality
Ghana
Ordained priest
Jul 19, 1997 Accra, Ghana
Ordained bishop
May 4, 2019 Donkorkrom, Ghana
Appointed
May 4, 2019
Principal consecrator
Philip Naameh
Co-consecrators
Jean-Marie Antoine Joseph Speich Gabriel Edoe Kumordji S.V.D.

Fr. John Alphonse Asiedu, S.V.D. was born on 12 May 1962 in Adeemmra, Afram Plains, in the vicariate of Donkorkrom. In 1988 he joined the Society of Missionaries of the Divine Word and studied at Saint Victor’s Major Seminary in Tamale. He gave his religious profession on 8 September 1996, after a two-year experience in Mexico in the Overseas Training Program of the Verbite Fathers. He then returned to Saint Victor’s to conclude his theological studies. He was ordained a priest on 19 July 1997. Since priestly ordination he has held the following offices: 1997-1999: parish vicar of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Kwahu Tafo, in the diocese of Koforidua, Ghana; 1999-2005: assistant to the master of novices in Nkwatia-Kwahu; 2006-2008: provincial bursar in Accra; 2008-2017. prefect of Scholastics at the S.V:D. Common Formation Centre of Tamale; and since 2017, master of novices in Nkwatia-Kwahu, in the diocese of Koforidua.