Rev. Fr Emmanuel Fianu is new Ho Catholic Bishop
Reverend Fr Emmanuel Kofi Fianu has been appointed as the new Catholic Bishop of Ho.
He replaces Most Rev. Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu.
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Until his appointment as Bishop, Rev. Fr Fianu was the Secretary-General of the Council of the Divine Word Fathers (SVD) in Rome.
The announcement of his appointment yesterday marked exactly 30 years of his priestly ordination, as he was ordained priest on July 14, 1985, at the Holy Spirit Cathedral, Accra, by the late Most Rev. Dominic Andoh.
He was assigned as an Assistant Parish Priest at the St Joseph Catholic Church, Kante, Togo, where he did his pastoral work, and was a teacher of Religion, Social Ethics and English at the College d’Enseignement General in Kante.
Biography
Born on June 14, 1957, Rev. Fr Fianu, after his secondary education, entered the St Victor’s Major Seminary in Tamale in 1976 for his philosophical and theological formation until 1979 when he entered the SVD Noviate at Nkwatia Kwahu.
Since ordination, Rev. Fr Fianu has played the following academic and pastoral roles among others. Between 1994 and 1996 he was the Admonitor of the SVD District in Lome, professor of Biblical Studies at St Jean Paul II Seminaire and at the Institut St Paul in Lome, and Secretary of the Commission for the liturgical publications Ghana-Togo.
He was the Rector of the College of the Divine Word in Rome from 2000-2004. Since 2006, Rev. Fr Fianu has been the Secretary of the General Council of his congregation.
History of Ho Diocese
The Diocese of Ho has 200,670 Catholics.
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There are 28 parishes, 82 priests (78 diocesan and four religious), 11 religious brothers, 81 nuns and 19 seminarians.