Lome, 09 January, 2024 / 8:59 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Philippe Fanoko Kossi Kpodzro, who has been known for freedom and democracy advocacy in Togo has passed on in Sweden, where he had fled following the West African nation’s controversial 2020 presidential election. He was aged 93.
Archbishop Kpodzro died in the early hours of Tuesday, January 9, the President of the Episcopal Conference of Togo (CET), Bishop Benoît Alowonou, has announced in a statement.
While waiting to provide information on his funeral, CET members invite the people of God to “pray that the Lord will welcome him into his kingdom.”
Since he retired in 2007, Archbishop Kpodzro had been committed to the Togolese opposition, with a view to realizing freedom and democratic change in the West African nation, change he so ardently desired, but which he was unable to witness, according to media reports.
Born in March 1930 in Tomégbé in Togo’s Catholic Diocese of Kpalimé, the late Archbishop Kpodzro was ordained a Priest in December 1959 in Rome.