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Administrative Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Boafo was elected as the Presiding Bishop and assumed office after an induction service on 1 October 2018 for a six-year, non-renewable term of office. The induction service, held at the Wesley Cathedral,
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Administrative Bishop of the Church. He is the first ordained minister to serve in both capacities in the episcopal history of the Ghanaian Methodist Church. Boafo also served as the Protestant Chaplain of the
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due to his uncle's work as a travelling minister. After passing the common entrance examination at the Sefwi Bekwai
Methodist Middle School, Boafo was enrolled at the Wenchi Methodist Secondary School from 1972 to 1977, where he obtained his
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Asankrangwa Roman Catholic Primary School. After his first year in elementary school, he moved to live with his maternal uncle, Reverend John Bennet Nsowah Quasie, then a
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Methodist chaplain at the Osei Tutu Secondary School at Akropong-Ashanti. Simultaneously, he was the attached adjunct minister to three local congregations in the Amakom circuit.
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parents Opanin Paul Kwaw Boafo and Agatha Ama
Asamoah Boafo. His mother described him as a sickly child and, by the age of three, he was a frequent patient at the local Catholic hospital.
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Freeman Centre for Leadership and Development, he led the facilitation of evangelist education. He was appointed a senior lecturer in
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Paul Boafo was a pupil teacher at the St. Peter and Paul Anglican Primary School in
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and the Methodist Church Ghana, he pursued a doctorate in
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Circuit. Boafo was the Superintendent Minister at the:
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454:Boafo also held the following positions:
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505:Aldersgate Methodist Church, Ayigya Annex
365:from the same institution. He received a
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513:Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church
502:St. Paul's Methodist Church, Kentinkromo
499:Christ the King Methodist Church, Asokwa
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