Francis Amenu (born ?) is a Ghanaian metallurgical engineer who also trained and ordained as a minister. He served in the Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P.) Church, Ghana. In 1999, he was assigned to serve Ghanaian congregations in

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, United Kingdom. There in 2003, before returning to Africa, he founded the E.P. Church, UK. In 2009 Amenu was elected as the first Moderator of the General Assembly of the

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, after the gathering was changed from a General Synod. He is addressed as the Right Reverend. He served in that position until 2015. He also served as the Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana beginning in 2013.

Education

Francis Amenu was born to an educated family in Ghana. After attending local schools, he was educated as a

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at the

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), commonly known as UST, Tech or Kwame Tech, is a public university located in Kumasi, Ashanti region, Ghana. The university focuses on science and technology. It is the second public uni ...

School of Mines at

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in the Western Region of Ghana between 1973 and 1976. He next was called to Christian ministry. He studied at the

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between 1982 and 1990. He later attended the

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, Indiana, in the

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, between 1995 and 1997.

Christian ministry

Amenu served in various capacities in the E.P. Church between 1985 and 1999, including as the head pastor at the Accra New Town branch of the church. In 1999 he was posted to

in the

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(UK), where he was the Ghanaian Minister in London and chaplain to the Ghanaian community in the

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in the UK between 1999 and 2003. He was instrumental in starting the UK branch of the E.P. Church during his stay there. Since his return to Ghana in 2003, Amenu served as the District Pastor at

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. He also served as a lecturer at the Trinity Theological Seminary, and the new

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at Ho in Ghana. In August 2008, Rev. Amenu was elected as the Moderator of the General Synod of the E.P. Church at its 67th

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at Ho. He had unsuccessfully stood for election as the Synod Clerk of the church in 2004. The churches changed the name of their decision-making body from General Synod to a General Assembly in 2009. That year, Amenu was elected to succeed Livingstone Buama as the first

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of the

(E.P. Church). His six-year term ended in 2015. He was succeeded by Seth Agidi. Francis Amenu became the Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana in 2013. He was succeeded in April 2014 by Emmanuel Martey, who was also Moderator of the

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at the time.

Marriage and family

He is married with four children together.

References

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Education

Christian ministry

Marriage and family

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References