Reverend Fr. Godfred Appiah-Marfo is a Catholic Priest from Ghana, which is a west African country sharing boundaries with Burkina Faso, Togo/Benin and Cote D’Ivoire. He was born in a village called Nyadeyeya in the Ashanti Region in the Amansie West District of Ghana on March 4, 1969, to Dominic Akwasi Appiah (teacher and catechist) and Theresah Adwoa Nsiah. He was the fourth child of a family of eight. Father's oldest two siblings and his father passed away leaving Father the second in the family of seven: two male and two female siblings.  The remaining children and their mother were surrounded by loving members of the extended family.

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His basic education was at Nyadeyeya Roman Catholic Primary School and Nwineso no. 3 Local Authority Middle School finishing in 1983. He responded to the calling of God into the ministry of the priesthood and joined the Minor Seminary in 1984. He completed his Ordinary and Advanced Level courses in 1992. He then studied Philosophy at St. Paul’s Catholic Seminary at Sowutuom, Accra; continued his Theological studies in St. Peter’s Regional Seminary, Pedu, Cape Coast, Ghana where he graduated in 2000 with a Degree in Theology and Sociology. He was ordained to the Priesthood on July 8, 2000.

 

Subsequently he was assigned as a curate at the Cathedral Church of St. Thomas, Obuasi for two Years and then transferred to St. Peter’s Church at Jacobu as Acting Parish Priest. ​In 2003, Reverend Godfred Appiah Marfo was sent to the Pontifical University of Urbaniana in Rome to study Canon Law and obtained Licentiate Degree in Canon Law in 2006. He returned to Ghana in October 2006 and worked in his Diocese of Obuasi from 2006 to 2023. Within that period, he held the positions of diocesan Chancellor and Judicial Vicar, Advocate of the Kumasi Provincial Tribunal, Promoter of Justice, Vicar for marriages, member of Bishop’s Consultors, diocesan Senator and Parish priest of St. Joseph, Esaase for five years, Holy Trinity, Anyinam for five years, St. Anthony, Esereso for five years and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Abompe for four years.

 

Most recently, God called Father Godfred to the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia as Parochial Vicar of St. Bridget's Parish and he is now currently a Judge and Promoter of Justice for the Diocesan Tribunal of Richmond as well as the Administrator for St. Mary of the Annunciation in Ladysmith, Virginia.  Reverend Fr. Godfred Appiah-Marfo has great interest in sports and music and a deep heart for charity and support for the poor and the suffering especially, the orphans and widows.