Accra, Dec. 12, GNA- Members of the Board of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E) Zion Church will pay a historic one-week visit to Ghana from December 14 to 20, 2024.
The visit is the first time in the more than 200-year history of the A.M.E Zion Church that the global Board of Bishops, the majority of whom reside in the United States of America, will be visiting an African country as a group.
This was in a statement issued by Rev. David K. Zungbey, the Episcopal Secretary, A.M.E Zion Church, copied to the Ghana News Agency.
Among the activities of the bishops during their week-long stay in Ghana are media engagement sessions and embarking on trips to Keta, Anloga, and Cape Coast.
There will also be courtesy calls on President Akufo Addo, the President-Elect, Mr. John Mahama, and the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana.
Another major event on the Board of Bishops’s itinerary is the Chapel Dedication Service of St John Society, which is the first (oldest) A.M.E. Zion church established in Ghana in Keta
in the year 1899.
The team will also tour sites in Accra like the Dubois Centre, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Arts Centre, the James Town Lighthouse, and Ussher Fort.
Currently, a Ghanaian, Right Reverend Dr. Hilliard K. Dela Dogbe, who is the first Indigenous African Resident Bishop of the church for the Western-West Africa Episcopal District, is the President of the Board of Bishops.
He was elected the President of the Board of Bishops at the 52nd Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the church held in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, from July 24 to 28, 2024.
The General Conference is the supreme legislative body of the A.M.E. Zion Church and meets every four years.
Globally, the African Methodist Episcopal A.M.E. Zion Church is made up of twelve Episcopal Districts, each presided over by a Bishop.
The Board of Bishops, which is composed of all Bishops (both active and retired) of the Church, is responsible for providing general supervision for the A.M.E. Zion Church in the interval of the General Conference.
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