Rose Mary Amenga-Etego

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Rose Mary Amenga-Etego (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the current Head (Chair) of the Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana. She obtained her PhD from the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, after her B. A. and MPhil degrees in Religions from the University of Ghana. She is a Research Associate of the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (RITR), University of South Africa (UNISA), Ghana’s Representative of the African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR) and a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (The Circle). Her current research is on the ‘Interplay between Christianity and African Indigenous Religions in Ghanaian Christian Funeral Rites.’

While studying for her PhD in Edinburgh, she was an Extraordinary Minister of the Holy Eucharist at the St. Patrick Catholic Church at the latter part of her studies in 2006 and 2007. In 2019, the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Chaplaincy at the University of Ghana campus enrolled her in the Accra Archdiocesan catechist training programme. She has since been commissioned as one of the catechists, teaching and learning the faith together with the adult English-speaking catechumens of the Chaplaincy. Again 2022, the Parish sent her to be commissioned as an Extraordinary Minister of the Holy Eucharistic to assist priests in distributing Communion.