Peter Proeku Dery
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Peter Proeku Dery (born May 10, 1918) is a Ghanaian Cardinal.
Born in Ko, Ghana, he was baptized in 1933 and ordained to the priesthood on February 11, 1951.
Pope John XXIII appointed him the first Bishop of Wa on March 16, 1960, and he was consecrated in St Peter's Basilica, Rome on May 8, 1960 by Pope John XXIII (with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen as one of his co-consecrators). He participated in Vatican II from 1962-1965.
He was transferred to be Bishop of Tamale on November 18, 1974 and was later elevated to Archbishop when the diocese was elevate to an archdiocese on May 30, 1977. He was President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference from 1982-1988. He resigned as Archbishop in 1994.
Pope Benedict XVI created him a Cardinal at the consistory of March 26, 2006, after he was already 80 (and therefore not eligible to vote at future conclaves).
