Archbishop of Canterbury opens clinic in Ghana, meets Asante king

Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally opened a new clinic at St. Monica's Nursing and Midwifery Training College in Mampong, Ghana, on July 29, in a commissioning ceremony celebrating the college's centennial. The clinic was named in her honor. The visit was part of Mullally's first trip to Africa as archbishop, serving the Church of the Province of West Africa. More than 1,000 students from the college and its affiliated institutions—including Mampong Babies Home orphanage and St. Monica's College of Education for women—attended a service where Mullally encouraged students in nursing and midwifery to recognize their capacity to transform lives and communities. A church service at St. Joseph the Worker Anglican Church in Accra was led entirely by female clergy in recognition of Mullally as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury. Later, Mullally visited Mampong Babies' Home and met with Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, king of the Asante people, at Manhyia Palace in Kumasi. They exchanged greetings and gifts and discussed their shared Anglican faith and the historical spiritual bond between the Asante Kingdom and the Anglican Communion, which dates to 1904 when an earlier Asantehene and his mother were baptized into the Anglican Church while exiled in the Seychelles. The evening concluded with an Evensong service at Manhyia Palace, where Mullally preached on themes of God's love and the treasure of the kingdom of Christ.

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Source: Episcopal News Service — https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/07/30/archbishop-of-canterbury-opens-clinic-meets-with-asante-king-in-ghana/