Ho, Oct. 10, GNA – The Right Reverend Dr Seth Senyo Agidi, the 13th Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, has died.
The Office of the Clerk of General Assembly, Rev Dr Emmanuel Komla Amey, who broke the sad news on behalf of the Standing Committee of the General Assembly, said the Moderator died at the Ho Teaching Hospital on Saturday morning.
Rt. Rev. Dr Agidi, on Friday, addressed a press conference on the stand of the Church on the activities of the Western Togoland Restoration Front, in the Volta Region.
He was elected in August 2014 and inducted into office on 11th January 2015, as the 13th Moderator of the Church, to serve a six-year term.
Rt. Rev. Dr Agidi’s tenure was thus to end on December 13, this year.
A parishioner of E.P. Church at the Ho Kpodzi Dela Cathedral told the GNA that Rt. Rev. Dr Agidi, delivered the sermon last Sunday and introduced the new pastors posted to the Church to the congregation.
He said though he had been using a wheelchair after battling an illness, the News about his death came to them as a shock.
Rev Agidi is accredited with, among other achievements, initiating a five-year strategic plan to help give the Church more focus on its divine mandate, and also to make it more visible.
He pursued efforts by his predecessors at expanding the Church beyond the borders of the country and had worked to enhance its development.
GNA