# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-kpakala-francis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:11.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-kpakala-francis"
name: "Michael Kpakala Francis"
slug: "michael-kpakala-francis"
description: "Michael Kpakala Francis was a Liberian prelate of the Catholic Church who led the Apostolic Vicariate of Monrovia from 1976 to 1981 and then served as the first Archbishop of the newly established Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monrovia from 1981 to 2011. He retired from pastoral care on 12 February 2011, having attained the mandatory retirement age of 75 years for Catholic bishops. He died on 19 May 2013, three months following his 77th birthday."
tagline: "Catholic archbishop of Monrovia"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(1992)_Michael_Kpakala_Francis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1936-02-12"
deathDate: "2013-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.002736000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "مايكل كباكالا فرانسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Kpakala Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Kpakala Francis"
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    title: "مایکل کپاکالا فرانسیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Kpakala Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kpakala_Francis"
    title: "Michael Kpakala Francis"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kpakala_Francis"
    title: "Michael Kpakala Francis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump