Cardinal Dery Fourth Colloquium: Project Statement
Theme : Thinking Pass Missionary Christianity and the Generation of Cardinal Dery ( Rev. Fr. Edward B. Tengan @70) Introduction By the beginning of the 1950s, missionary Christianity as propagated by the White fathers under the leadership Fr. R. McCoy and supported by the pioneer generation of converted Catholics led by, now ‘servant of God’ Cardinal Peter Dery, had taken firm roots in northwest Ghana. This was particularly so among the Dagaaba/Dagara and Sisaala populations. Signs that the local church in northwest Ghana was growing into maturity began to show with the ordination of Peter Poreku Dery to the priesthood in 1951. The mass numbers of people turning up every Sunday in the many parish churches that has been constructed between 1929 and 1951 was not waning but continued to grow and there were now more infant baptisms in each parish church than that of adult ones. The rapid growth and maturity of the church soon led to the creation of a new diocese, the diocese of