The Office of the Primate of the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain has appointed The Rev. Regina Ama Konadu, Director of The Apostolic Centre of St. Maximus The Theologian (Ghana), as the Bishop-Elect for Ghana. She will hold responsibility for the governance of the Ghana diocese of the Congress, in addition to any other responsibilities that may be passed to her Office

The Rev. Regina Ama Konadu

The Rev. Konadu studied at the Abuakwa State College in the Eastern Region of Ghana. She proceeded from here to train for three years as a state registered nurse at the Nurses Training College at Cape Coast in Ghana. She served as a state-registered nurse in Ghana for over 10 years. Within the period, she served as a nurse at the Ghana Parliament House where she was exposed to country-governance challenges. In 1996, she proceeded to serve the Churches in Ghana for another 10 years. She served in various capacities, including co-pastoring congregations as an ordained Church minister. Her status as an ordained minister was confirmed in the Ghana Government Gazette No. 23, published in April 2006.

Between October 2006 and January 2007, Rev Konadu undertook life research studies at the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London to enhance her ministry. She was awarded the Post-Graduate Associate Certificate in Narrative Research by the University as at February 2007.

The Consecration of Rev. Konadu as a Bishop of the Apostolic Congress of Great Britain will happen in Ghana in October 2007, to coincide with the Knowledge and Ghana's Development month which has been set up by the Government of Ghana within the country's Independence Jubilee celebration (the first independence jubilee celebration in Africa, south of the Sahara). The event will also mark the official opening of the Maximilian International University College in Ghana, of which Rev. Konadu currently serves as Co-Executive. The event will again mark the official opening of our collaborative post-graduate programmes - including the Continuing Professional Development credits as well as the substantive MA and MPhil/PhD in Professional Practice, organised in collaboration with the Institute for Professional Excellence at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.

The Reverend Henry Okoampa Agyemang (1927-2001)

The Rev. Konadu is a daughter of The Reverend Henry Okoampa Agyemang (1927-2001) who served primarily through the Presbyterian Church of Ghana - a Church birthed from the work of Basel Missions in Switzerland, Germany and Jamaica and later linked to the Scottish Mission in Scotland. The Rev. Agyemang served as a headteacher, catechist, national youth minister, district presbytery chair, senior church minister, member of the synod, and constitutional local council chair. These faithful services of Rev. Agyemang do awaken in his daughter (Rev. Konadu) serious attention to critical features of Church ministry such as training and education, leadership development, governance, spiritual renewal, and socio-political change. The consecration of Rev. Konadu obviously serves as an honour to her father's dedication to God's work.

The consecration is also an expression of dad-daughter continuing faithful-service in God's eternal Kingdom. That leads to a new light on the issue of Apostolic Succession particularly at the meeting points between the Christian missionary movements from the West and African "apostolic" Christianity - and what that means in local and international setting of God's Church today.

With these undertakings, Rev. Konadu will hold key responsibilities for the growth and administration of the Apostolic Congress.

To God Be All The Glory!