Presbyterian Church of Ghana

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana
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Classification	Protestant
Theology	Reformed
Polity	Presbyterian
Associations	World Council of Churches and World Communion of Reformed Churches
Origin	1828/1955 Cape Coast, Ghana
Branched from	Basel Mission of Switzerland
Congregations	2,573
Members	876,257
Official website	pcgonline

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana is a Protestant church in Ghana. The church was started by the Basel missionaries in 1828. The missionaries had been trained in Germany and arrived on the Gold Coast to spread Christianity. The work of the mission became stronger when missionaries from the West Indies arrived in the country. The church set up a seminary for the training of church workers to help in the missionary work. The Twi language was added as part of the text used in the training of the seminarians. At the beginning of the 21st century the church had founded churches among the Asante people, where lived in the middle belt of Ghana. The Basel missionaries left the Gold Coast during the First World War in 1917. The work of the Presbyterian church was continued by missionaries from the Church of Scotland. Since 2016 the moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana is the Rt. Rev. Professor Cephas Narh Omenyo. The church expanded to the northern part of Ghana in the 1940s.

The church is a founding member of the Christian Council of Ghana. The association is an umbrella group that unites several churches in Ghana and monitors the activities of members to ensure that they are united in their Christian mission. The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has seven church departments that have specific tasks of building up the church in their respective activities. These are:

By the end of 2013 the church has about 773,504 members and runs 1,907 schools and a university. In 2012 according to the WCC data it has more the 565,600 members and almost 2,200 congregations. PCG Statistics – 2001 to 2013

Education is an integral part of the church's responsibility to the communities it operates in and Ghana. There are 487 kindergarten and nursery schools, 984 primary schools and 399 junior high schools. The church has 27 senior high schools, 40 private schools, 6 vocational institutions, 5 teacher training colleges, a research centre. In 2003, the church started a university known as the Presbyterian University College. It is located at Abetifi-Kwahu in the Eastern region of Ghana.