Titus Avotwi Pratt

Titus Awotwi Pratt (born December 5, 1947 in Ghana ) is a Ghanaian educator and Methodist clergyman. He was the presiding bishop of the Methodist Church in Ghana . He served as head of the Methodist Church in Gambia and as Bishop of Accra . He spent the first years of his ministry as an assistant pastor at the Roundhay Methodist Church in Leeds , United Kingdom.

Life

Origin and education

Titus Awortwi Pratt was born on December 5, 1947, the sixth of ten children to his parents Charles Awotwi Pratt and Grace Awotwi Pratt. His father was also a Methodist clergyman and served as the fourth president of the Methodist Autonomous Church of Ghana in 1977. Pratt received his elementary and secondary education at Wesley Grammar School in Accra. After three years of training at Komenda Teachers Training College , he received his professional teaching diploma.

Methodist minister

Pratt attended Trinity Theological Seminary in Legon in 1973 . After successfully completing his training in 1977, he was commissioned as a Methodist clergyman. His father, who was the head of the Methodist Church at the time of his graduation, hired him. Pratt's first post was in 1977 as a chaplain at Fijai Secondary School in Sekondi . After his parole as a clergyman, he was ordained pastor of the Methodist Church of Ghana in 1979 .

After his probationary period, he spent the next three years as an assistant pastor at the Roundhay Methodist Church, Ladywood, Leeds, and later at the Manchester and Salford circuits. In 1982 he returned to Ghana, where he served as chaplain of Prempeh College. Later positions as pastor took him to various other churches and districts, including Kumasi, Ajumako and Cape Coast.

Work in the Gambia

At the end of the 1980s, Pratt was sent to the newly founded district of the Methodist Church of Ghana in Gambia as a Ghanaian superintendent . He served as Synod Secretary of the District Synod of Gambia until 1994 . Eventually he was elected Chairman and General Superintendent of the Methodist Mission in the country. His tenure as head of the Gambian Mission ended in 2003 when he was called back to Ghana.

During his time in Gambia he was a member of the state-appointed commission of inquiry "Commission of Inquiry into Public Disturbances of 10th and 11th April 2000", which should clear up the incidents during the student protests on April 10th and 11th .

Bishop of Accra

He served as Superintendent Minister of the Dansoman Circuit and later of the Kwashieman Circuit, both in the Accra Diocese of the Methodist Church of Ghana . In 2011 Pratt was elected Methodist Bishop of Accra. In 2015, two years before the end of his term as Bishop of Accra, he was elected Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana.

Presiding Bishop

During the 2014 Methodist Church Conference, Pratt was elected as the presiding bishop of the church. He received 198 votes against the 131 votes of runner-up Paul Boafo , chaplain of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology , and was inducted into office on October 1, 2015. He replaced Emmanuel Asante , who had completed his six-year term as presiding bishop. Pratt was the fourth person to hold this office since the Church's episcopal system began in 2000. With his election to the high office of presiding bishop, a father and son have led the Church for the first time since 1835. As presiding bishop, he oversees all activities of church preaching, church building, and church growth. He is also a member of the clergy advisory team that meets with the President of Ghana to advise him on various matters.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Presiding Bishop - The Methodist Church Ghana. In: org.gh. 2017, archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; accessed on February 11, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c The 'Appointed Day' - the induction of The Most Rev. Titus Awotwi-Pratt. In: com.gh. Graphic Online, accessed February 11, 2020 (UK English).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Bishop Titus Pratt, the incoming Methodist Presiding Bishop. In: com.gh. Graphic Online, accessed February 11, 2020 (UK English).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Methodist Church Elects Bishop Awotwe Pratt As Presiding Bishop. In: christiancouncilgh.org. 2018, archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; accessed on February 12, 2020 .
↑ Awotwe Pratt elected to lead Methodist Church Ghana. In: com.gh. Graphic Online, accessed February 11, 2020 (UK English).
↑ Most Rev. Titus Awotwi-Pratt Archives ⋆ GHSPLASH.COM. In: ghsplash.com. 2018, archived from the original on May 12, 2018 ; accessed on February 11, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pratt, Titus Avotwi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pratt, Titus KA; Pratt, Titus Kofi Awotwi (full name); Titus Avotwi-Pratt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ghanaian educator and methodist clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ghana

[methodistchurch-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Presiding Bishop - The Methodist Church Ghana. In: org.gh. 2017, archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; accessed on February 11, 2020 .

[graphic_01-2] The 'Appointed Day' - the induction of The Most Rev. Titus Awotwi-Pratt. In: com.gh. Graphic Online, accessed February 11, 2020 (UK English).

[graphic_02-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Bishop Titus Pratt, the incoming Methodist Presiding Bishop. In: com.gh. Graphic Online, accessed February 11, 2020 (UK English).

[christiancouncilgh-4] Methodist Church Elects Bishop Awotwe Pratt As Presiding Bishop. In: christiancouncilgh.org. 2018, archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; accessed on February 12, 2020 .

[graphic_03-5] Awotwe Pratt elected to lead Methodist Church Ghana. In: com.gh. Graphic Online, accessed February 11, 2020 (UK English).

[ghsplash-6] Most Rev. Titus Awotwi-Pratt Archives ⋆ GHSPLASH.COM. In: ghsplash.com. 2018, archived from the original on May 12, 2018 ; accessed on February 11, 2020 .