Jean-Pierre Kutwa

Jean -Pierre Cardinal Kutwa ( born December 22, 1945 in Block Hauss, Ivory Coast ) is a Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Abidjan.

Life

A few days before Christmas 1970, he was ordained twenty-five year of Bishop Bernard Yago deacon for Abidjan, on 11 July 1971, he was ordained a priest. After thirty years of work as a priest in the Ivorian capital Kutwa was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Archbishop of Gagnoa on 15 May 2001. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Abidjan, Cardinal Bernard Agre, on 16 September of the same year; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Yopougon, Laurent Akran Mandjo, and the Bishop of San Pedro -en- Côte d' Ivoire, Barthélémy Djabla.

On 2 May 2006, the appointment as Archbishop of Abidjan by Pope Benedict XVI was .. On 18 June 2006, he took over as head of the Archdiocese of Abidjan, on 29 June 2006 received him Benedict XVI. in St. Peter, to hand over the pallium, the Office of the characters Metropolitan Archbishops.

In solemn consistory of February 22, 2014 Pope Francis took him a cardinal priest with the titular church Sant'Emerenziana a goal Fiorenza to the College of Cardinals.

He committed against the country's long civil war and called for systematic disarmament of former civil war combatants.