A good number of cultural practices were being practiced among different cultural groups across the West Africa region before the arrival of Europeans in the land. The religion of the Europeans took control of some parts of the country just as the Europeans invaded, explored and took control of parts of the country in colonial era. Christianity in Ghana has all through the history overshadowed other forms of religion. Although more than half of the Ghanaian citizens are Christians which makes it a Christian nation (with the denominations including Catholics, Methodists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Seventh-Day Adventists, Pentecostals, Baptists etc), many know too little about Christianity in Ghana. Read on to see more things you should know about being a Christian in Ghana.

Did you know how Methodist Church came about in Ghana? The arrival of Joseph Rhodes Dunwell to the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1835 resulting from missionary activities of the Wesleyan Methodist Church brought Methodist Church to Ghana. It was founded by people who were of Anglican background just as the mother church.

Roman Catholic was brought to Gold Coast just the same time as Methodist church. Even though, the Roman Catholic Church is moderately represented in Central Region and Ashanti Region, the presence of Christianity (Roman Catholic) in Ghana is dated to 15th century. At the time of Philip Quaque, a Ghanaian priest, a school was founded in Cape Coast by the Anglicans in which the uneducated African class was trained. Nearly all major secondary schools today, especially “all boys and all girls” schools, are mission or church-related schools.