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The Anglican Communion (AC) is a Christian communion consisting of the autocephalous national and regional churches historically in full communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Member churches exercise jurisdictional independence but share a common heritage concerning Anglican identity and commitment to scripture, tradition, and reason as sources of authority.
The Anglican Diocese of Kumasi, which is part of the Church of the Province of West Africa and the Internal Province of Ghana, was carved out of the Diocese of Accra in June 1973, during the episcopacy of the Rt. Rev’d Dr I. S. M. LeMaire.
The Rt. Rev. John Benjamin Arthur, then Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Accra, served as the first Bishop of the Diocese from 1973 to 1983. The Parish Church of St Cyprian the Martyr, located in the heart of Kumasi—the capital of the Ashanti Region and the Ashanti Kingdom of Ghana—became the Cathedral Church of St Cyprian the Martyr.