Chancellor of the Kumasi Archdiocese, Rev.

Fr.

Felix Baffour Gyaewu, has dismissed concerns over the inability to elect an African pope in the just-ended papal election, describing such sentiments as misplaced and contrary to the universal nature of the Catholic Church.

This comes in the wake of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost's election as the new pope, taking the name Pope Leo XIV, following the conclusion of a historic conclave in Vatican City.