A
grand send-off ceremony will be held on Sunday 14th February, to honor
the Most Rev. Prof. Daniel Yinka Sarfo as he retires from the office of
Archbishop of the Internal Province of Ghana and the Diocesan Bishop of
Kumasi respectively. The Service is timed 9am and will come of at the
Cathedral of St. Cyprain the Matyr,kumasi Ghana.
He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of IPG since September 2012, and was Archbishop Primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa. (CPWA), since 13 March 2014 until 3 March 2019.
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 Suyani in 1986, and became a Canon of the St, Cyprains 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 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.
