Lucas Abadamloora

Lucas Abadamloora ( born December 22, 1938 in Chiana in Navrongo, Ghana; † 23 December, 2009 Bolgatanga, Ghana ) was Bishop of Bolgatanga.

Life

Lucas Abadamloora, the eldest of seven children of a peasant family, visited in 1948 the boarding school St. Paul 's School in Navrongo, then St. Mary's Middle School. From 1956 to 1962 he attended the minor seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in Tamale and the Government Secondary School. From 1962 to 1968 he studied at the Seminary of St. Victor in Tamale. After the doctorate in theology. he received on August 3, 1968, the ordination.

Pope John Paul II appointed him in 1994 to the bishop of Navrongo - Bolgatanga. He received his episcopal consecration on 29 June 1994 Archbishop André Pierre Louis Dupuy, Apostolic Nuncio in Ghana; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Tamale and later Cardinal Peter Dery Poreku, and his predecessor Rudolph A. Akanlu.

Abadamloora engaged in particular for HIV / AIDS prevention and education. He was strongly supported by the Catholic Relief Services. Personal friend of the Imam of Bolgatanga he committed himself to a Christian-Muslim friendship. Bishop Abadamloora had close contact with the diocese of Münster and was a guest at the inauguration of the Würzburg Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann.

Lucas Abadamloora was the successor of Peter Cardinal Turkson since 2004, President of the Bishops Conference in Ghana. He died at 71 years in the episcopate.