Cardinal Peter Turkson was ordained to the priesthood in 1975 and was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003. As the former Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the Vatican's former president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and former prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Cardinal Turkson is currently the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican.