Andrew Campbell (priest)
Rev. Fr. Andrew Campbell (born 27 March 1946) is an Irish-Ghanaian Catholic priest and missionary. He founded the Lepers Aid Committee to help people with leprosy and was a parish priest at Christ the King Catholic Church in Accra.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, he studied at Sisters of Charity School and de la Salle Primary School, then earned a Bachelor of Divinity from St. Patrick’s College in October 1970. He was ordained a priest in December 1970 and went to Ghana in 1971 as a missionary with the Society of the Divine Word. He has served at several Accra parishes, including Holy Spirit Cathedral in Adabraka, St. Peter’s in Osu, and Sacred Heart in Accra, where he started the Sacred Heart Vocational Institute.
The Lepers Aid Committee, founded in 1993, cares for people with leprosy and runs leprosariums in Weija, Ho, Nkanchina, and Kokofu. He also started the Christ the King Soup Kitchen. In 2013 he became a Ghanaian citizen and adopted the local name Nii Lantey. He has received honors for his humanitarian work.
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