Emmanuel Fianu

Emmanuel Kofi Fianu S.V.D. (born 14 June 1957) is a Ghanaian Roman Catholic bishop. He was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ho on 14 July 2015 by Pope Francis. From 14 July 1985 until then, he was a priest of the Catholic religious Order of the Society of the Divine Word. He was consecrated and installed at Ho on 3 October 2015. He succeeded Bishop Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu, who retired. While bishop, Emmanuel Kofi Fianu served as Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Keta-Akatsi from 7 April 2016 until 13 May 2017.

Background and education Emmanuel Fianu was born on 14 June 1957 in Tegbi, Keta Municipal in Ghana. He started elementary school in 1963. He studied at primary and secondary schools in Tegbi, Ada-Foah and Accra. He studied at the Tamale Major Seminary in Tamale from 1976 until 1979. He became a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Divine Word (SVD), while in seminary. Later, he graduated with an advanced degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

Priest On 8 September 1980 he professed as a member of the Society of the Divine Word. He took the perpetual vows of that religious Order on 8 September 1984. He was ordained a priest of the same Society on 14 July 1985 in Accra by Dominic Kodwo Andoh, Bishop of Accra. He served a priest until 14 July 2015.

He was consecrated and installed at Ho on 3 October 2015 by Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson, Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio assisted by Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu, Bishop Emeritus of Ho and Jean-Marie Antoine Joseph Speich, Titular Archbishop of Sulci.