Peter Poreku Dery

Peter Poreku Dery

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cardinal name = Peter Cardinal Dery


dipstyle = His Eminence
offstyle = Your Eminence
See=Tamale (emeritus)

Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery (May 10, 1918March 6, 2008) was a Ghanaian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Tamale from 1974 to 1994, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006.

Biography

Peter Poreku was born in Ko, as the fourth of the ten children of Theodore Poreku and Agnes Zoore. Having been born shortly after the death of one of his brothers, his pagan family believed him to be the reincarnation of his brother and thus called Dery. He later converted to Catholicism, being baptized in Jirapa in 1933.

After attending the minor seminary in Navrongo, Dery studied philosophy and theology at St. Victor's Major Seminary in Wiagha. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Gérard Bertrand, MAfr, on February 11, 1951, and then furthered his studies. He earned a diploma in social studies from the St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia in 1958, and obtained his doctorate in theology after studying at the International Catechetical Institute "Lumen vitae" in Brussels, Belgium.

On March 16, 1960, Dery was appointed the first Bishop of Wa by Pope John XXIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 8 from Pope John himself, with Bishops Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, CIM, and Fulton Sheen serving as co-consecrators in St. Peter's Basilica. Dery, soon after his formal installation as Bishop, requested permission from the Vatican to translate the Ordinary of the Mass into Dagare and have it sung in local melodies, accompanied by local musical instruments; permission was given and Dery himself composed the first Dagare Mass. He also attended the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), and focused on the involvement of the laity, the education of the youth, and the promotion of vocations during his tenure.Dery was later named Apostolic Administrator of Tamale, rising to become the fourth Bishop of Tamale on November 18, 1974. He was the first non-religious Ordinary of that diocese, as all his predecessors had belonged to the White Fathers. He was promoted to the rank of a metropolitan archbishop upon Tamale's elevation to an archdiocese on May 30, 1977. From 1982 to 1988, he served as President of the Ghanaian Catholic Bishops' Conference.

He resigned his post as Archbishop on March 26, 1994, after nineteen years of service and reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75. Pope Benedict XVI created him Cardinal Deacon of "S. Elena fuori Porta Prenestina" in the consistory of March 26, 2006; however, at the age of 87, he was not eligible to vote in any future papal conclaves.

Dery died in Tamale, at age 89.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bderypp.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios2006.htm#Dery Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]
* [http://www.catholic-pages.com/hierarchy/cardinals_bio.asp?ref=255 Catholic-Pages]


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