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Orthodox Anglican church to get first Bishop in Ghana
Sekondi, April. 1, Ghanadot/GNA- The Very
Reverend Doctor Jacob Augustine Welbourne, would be
consecrated and enthroned as the first bishop of the
orthodox Anglican Church of Ghana at Sekondi on April 6,
this year.
The service would be held at the Cathedral Church of the
Resurrection of the Diocese of Saints Peter and Paul, the
Apostles at Sekondi.
These were contained in a release faxed to the GNA and
signed by Rev. Father Edward Kwamina Minnah, Rector of the
Church.
The Primate and Archbishop of the orthodox Anglican
Communion, Most Rev. Dr. Scott Earl McLaughlin would perform
the consecration service.
Other bishops expected include Rt. Rev. Alphonse Mifika,
Presiding Bishop of the Democratic republic of Congo, and
Rt. Rev. Hesbon Njera, Presiding Bishop of Kenya.
Rev. Welbourne was ordained a deacon in 1981 and a priest
the following year.
The release said between 1983 and 1994, he was the rector of
the Trinity Episcopal Church in New Jersey and St. Clement’s
Episcopal Church in Michigan all in the United States of
America.
He was the parish priest of the St. Augustine’s Anglican
Church at Dansoman and was transferred in 2002 and made the
Dean of the cathedral church of Saint Andrew the Apostle, at
Sekondi.
In 2006, he and four other church members of the church were
charged for contempt of court, imprisoned and upon their
release broke away to form the Orthodox Anglican Church at
Sekondi.
GNA
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