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ROME (MEOR) – The Most Reverend J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, presiding bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, visited MEOR on 3 February 2026 during a tour of pastoral tour of Italy.

MEOR director Rev. Matthew A. Laferty and Presiding Bishop Asamoah-Gyadu discussed the work of MEOR, contemporary relations between the Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council, worldwide Methodism, and emerging ecumenical issues in Ghana. Rev. Laferty presented to Presiding Bishop Asamoah-Gyadu a copy of “We Believe in One God: Sixty Years of Methodists and Catholics Walking Together,” a recent publication of the Joint Commission for Dialogue between the World Methodist Council and the Catholic Church.

Presiding Bishop Asamoah-Gyadu was previously a guest of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome and the Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas for a conference “Listening to the West” from 26-28 January 2023.

The Methodist Church Ghana, is one of the leading Churches in Ghana, with a total membership of over 600,000. The Church has 17 dioceses, 3,814 societies, 1,066 pastors, 15,920 local preachers, 24,100 Lay Leaders, many schools, an orphanage, hospitals and clinics.