He made this plea on his installation as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Diocese of Accra on the 1^st March, 2019 at the Holy Spirit Cathedral.

The Archbishop was enthroned by His Emminence, Cardinal Peter Kwodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development at the Vatican; Archbishop Jean-Marie Speich, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana and Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye, Archbishop of Kumasi. The Archbishop of the Cape Coast Diocese, Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer Buckle then handed over the staff of office to the newly installed Bishop.

Before the enthronement, Bishop Gabriel Akwasi Ababio Mante, Bishop of Jasikan, presented the Archbishop Elect to the congregation and was questioned by the Principal celebrant, Archbishop Buckle, if he had a mandate from the Holy See. Bishop Mante replied in the affirmative. He was then asked by the main celebrant to show the mandate, known as the Papal Bull to the Bishops, the College of Consultors, the Clergy, the Religious and the Lay Faithful.  The message on the Papal Bull was then read in Latin, English and Ga, the language of the people of the Accra Diocese.

In a homily, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale, Most Rev. Philip Naameh, said that the church may be attacked by the powers of evil but will not be destroyed because it is founded on the rock, the Apostle Peter, and on truth.

He said that it is the Pope’s prerogative to move Bishops around when he sees the need to do so adding that it is a very normal practice in the Catholic Church. He said that, as children of God, we are one family and the Shepherd could be called upon to serve anywhere.  He called on christians to dismantle barriers of ethnic affiliation as we are all one.  Translating that into politics, he said that he wished to see a President who would be all inclusive and work with anybody at all regardless of political affiliation.

In a congratulatory message, the President of Ghana, His Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, admonished the New Archbishop to hold on fast to the catholic virtues of faith, hope, charity, fortitude, justice and prudence in the discharge of his duties. His message was read by the Chief of Staff, Honourable Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, who headed the governement delegation to the installation mass.

There were congratulatory messages from the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC), the Accra Archdiocesan Priests' Association (AAPA), Religious men and women in the Archdiocese and the  Archdiocesan Laity Council.

Biography

Born to the late Mr. John Kogyan Kwofie and Madam Agnes Ama Tokwah Kwofie on 26th

April 1958, Archbishop John B. Kwofie, CSSp is the first of ten siblings. He hails from Apowa in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region.

Most Rev. Kwofie, CSSp, started schooling at Apowa Roman Catholic Primary in 1963. He received baptism from Rev. Fr. Joseph Kwofie and enrolled as a Knight of the Altar. Inspired by the dedication exhibited by Rev. Fr. Kwofie in the discharge of his pastoral duties, he gradually developed interest in the priesthood and entered St. Theresa's Junior Seminary, Amisano, for his secondary education and to pursue his vocation.

At Amisano, he felt the call to the religious-missionary priesthood. He therefore sought to enter the Congregation of the Holy Spirit also known as the Spiritans. After his Sixth Form studies, the Spiritan Fathers sent him to Seminaire Jean XXIII, Ebolowa in Cameroun for his postulancy formation and to prepare himself for the bilingual formation program, a year later, at the Spiritan Novitiate in The Gambia.

He made his first Religious Profession on 15th August, 1981, and continued to Nigeria for studies in Philosophy at the Spiritan Institute of Philosophy at Isienu-Nsukka. He did his pastoral year at the Holy Rosary Parish, Suame in Kumasi and then proceeded to St. Paul's College Seminary in Gbarnga, Liberia for Theology. He was ordained to the Catholic Priesthood on 23 July 1988 by Most Rev. Peter Kwasi Sarpong at Holy Spirit Parish, Bantama in Kumasi. He was sent immediately after his priestly ordination to do a short course on Pastoral Leadership at the Lumko Institute of South Africa.

As a response to his desire to serve the world-church as a missionary priest, his Superiors sent him to The Gambia on his first missionary assignment. After three years in the mission area of Basse and Bansang, a mission he loved so much and gave himself totally to, he was sent to Rome in 1991 for studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute where he attained Licentiate in Sacred Scriptures in 1995. As a student of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, he also had the opportunity to do part of his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Elected Superior of the Spiritan West African Foundation, he returned to Ghana and served the Spiritan Fathers and Brothers working in The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Benin and parts of Nigeria for six years. He combined his service as Spiritan Superior with lectureship in biblical studies at the Spiritan Theologate in Enugu, Nigeria. When the Spiritan West African Foundation was raised to the status of a Province, he was elected its first Provincial Superior and served for another three years.

During these years of leadership of his Religious Congregation, he also served the Conference of Major Superiors (Men) as Vice-President for a term of three years and then as President for two terms. When the Continental Conference of Religious Major Superiors of Africa was at its inception stage, he was appointed its first Coordinator with a mandate to organize the Conferences of Religious Major Superiors into an Association of Conferences of Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar. He carried out this mandate until the African Religious Continental Conference (COSMAM) was inaugurated. He

handed over to an elected executive board after two years.

During his nine years of service as Superior of his Religious Congregation, he engaged in pastoral work especially on Sundays in various parishes. He also loved facilitating Chapters of Religious Congregations. Thinking of helping the growth of Religious Congregations in Africa, he did a course in Monitoring and Evaluation at GIMPA with the hope of applying some of the principles of this discipline to the life of Religious Congregations.

Soon after this short program, he was elected the first Assistant to the Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and so relocated to the Headquarters of the Spiritan Congregation in Rome where he lived and served the Spiritan family worldwide from 2004 to 2012.

As a General Councillor of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, he had special responsibility, among others, for the Spiritan circumscriptions in West, East and North Africa accompanying them in matters concerning presence, mission, administration and relationship with local Dioceses and in-charge of Inter-Religious Dialogue and Ecumenical Relations.

He also served on the Board of the Centre of Spiritan Studies at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.

When he completed his term on the General Council of the Spiritans in Rome in 2012, he took a sabbatical year at Fribourg University in Switzerland. He then became a lecturer at the Theology Department of Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, in July, 2013, and was appointed Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi on 3rd July, 2014. He returned to Ghana and was ordained as the fourth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi, on 13^th September, 2014.

On 2nd January, 2019, he was appointed the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra.