Peter Poreku Dery
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His Eminence Peter Poreku Dery Servant of God |
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| Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Elena fuori Porta Prenestina | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 24 March 2006 |
| Installed | 28 March 2006 |
| Term ended | 6 March 2008 |
| Predecessor | Edouard Gagnon |
| Successor | João Braz de Aviz |
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| Ordination | 11 February 1951 by Gérard Bertrand |
| Consecration | 8 May 1960 by Pope John XXIII |
| Created Cardinal | 24 March 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Deacon |
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| Birth name | Peter Poreku |
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10 May 1918 Wa, Ghana |
| Died | 6 March 2008 (aged 89) Tamale, Ghana |
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| Motto | Apostolus Jesu Christi ("Apostle of Jesus Christ") |
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| Sainthood | |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Servant of God |
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Styles of Peter Dery |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Tamale (Emeritus) |
Peter Poreku Dery (10 May 1918 – 6 March 2008) was a Ghanaian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Tamale from 1974 to 1994 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006.
His cause of canonization has commenced and he is now referred to as a Servant of God. The cause commenced in 2013.
Peter Poreku was born in Zimuopare (Ko Parish) which was a village in the Nandom District of the Upper-West Region of Ghana in 1918. He was the fourth of the ten children of Theodore Poreku and Agnes Zoore. He was born soon after the death of one of his brothers.
As is the belief and practice of the Dagaare speaking people of North-Western Ghana and Southern Burkina-Faso, a male child born shortly after the death of his immediate elder brother is believed to be the reincarnation of the deceased brother and thus given the name of "Dery" to signify that. In keeping with that belief and practice his pagan family thus called him "Dery". He later converted to Roman 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 11 February 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.
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