Methodist Church Ghana

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One of the largest and oldest Protestant denominations in Ghana. It traces its roots back to the landing of Rev. Joseph Dunwell on 1 January 1835 in Cape Coast. Many of the early missionaries died of malaria and other tropical diseases early on. Rev. Thomas Birch Freeman, another missionary emerged as the father of Methodism in West Africa, taking the Christian message beyond Cape Coast to the Ashanti Kingdom, Nigeria, and other parts of the region.

After serving as a district in the British Methodist Conference, the Methodist Church Ghana attaind full independence in 1961. It adopted an episcopal structure at the Koforidua Conference in August of 1999. Currently, the Methodist Church Ghana has 15 dioceses headed by bishops. 254 new congregations were started in 2004 and 2005, and recently work was initiated in Burkina Faso.

The current presiding bishop is the Most Rev. Dr. Robert Aboagye-Mensah. The administrative bishop is Rt. Rev. Kow B. Egyir, and the lay president is Mr. James Alfred Amissah Abadoo-Brew.