The Evangelical Presbyterian Church Ghana was founded by German missionaries on 14 November 1847 in Peki. These missionaries from the North German Mission Society, together with the Basel Mission in 1847, started work among the Ewe people in what is now the Volta Region of Ghana. By the beginning of World War I, they had established two mission stations in the British colony of the Gold Coast and seven in the German territory of Togoland. The first of the mission stations was in present-day Togo. After the war, Togoland was divided into two territories, the western one under British rule and the eastern one under French rule. The first synod of the mission stations in May 1922, despite the division of Togoland, declared itself to be the supreme governing body of the "Ewe Church". The church adopted the congregational order of the Bremen Mission. In 1923, Scottish missionaries began working in British Togo, which is the present-day Volta Region of Ghana. The church inFrench Togoland was run by the Paris Mission. As a result, development proceeded separately in the two territories, although both churches share the same constitution. They hold a common synod meeting every 4 years.
The EP church has its headquarters at Ho, the capital of the Volta Region of Ghana. It has more than 600,000 members in nearly 750 congregations. The overall leader of the church is known as the Moderator of the General Assembly. The current Moderator of the General Assembly of the church is Rt. Rev. Dr. Seth Senyo Agidi. He succeeded Very Rev. Francis Amenu in 2015, who had been elected as the first Moderator of the General Assembly, which was constituted in 2009. The previous gathering of the churches was known as the General Synod. The last Moderator of the General Synod was Rt. Rev. Dr. L.K Buama, whose term ended in 2009.
Past Moderators
The first Moderator was elected in 1922, when the Togo and Gold Coast branches of the church held their first Joint Synod.
Very Rev. Andreas Aku -
Very Rev. David Bensah
Very Rev. E. Awuma
Very Rev. B.S. Amegashie
Very Rev. M.W. Akama
Very Rev. E.K. Galevo
Very Rev. A.K. Abutiate
Very Rev. C.K. Dovlo
Very Rev. Noah Komla Dzobo
Very Rev. Japhet Ledo
Very Rev. Livingstone Komla Buama
Since 23 August 2008, the church changed from Synod status to General Assembly status. Since then, the Moderator is now officially known as 'The Moderator of the General Assembly'. The first Moderator since this change is Rev. Francis Amenu.
United Reformed Church - A Ghanaian minister for London works with the URC over four-year term and the church of origin alternates between the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.
