Bishop Herman College was founded on February 28, 1952 at Kpando in the Volta Region of Ghana by the then Keta Diocese of the Catholic Church as a boy's Secondary Boarding school.

BIHECO as the school has come to be known, was named after Bishop Augustine Herman, a Frenchman who was Bishop of the Keta Diocese from 1923-1945. Bishop Herman's legendary exemplary Christian life and his love for education saw him setting up schools in most of the communities he succeeded in planting the Catholic faith. It came thus as no surprise that when the Keta Diocese wanted to establish an exemplary, par excellence secondary school to train young boys in the pursuit of spiritual and academic discipline they decided to name it after him.

BIHECO became a reality through committed faithful of the Catholic Church in the then Keta Diocese, the people of Kpando-Aloryi [on whose land the school stands] and others from the Netherlands (through the initiative of the first Headmaster).
The school started in the premises of the Roman Catholic Mission, Kpando (Gabi) and in 1954 moved to its home on the Aloryi Hills overlooking the Kpando township and the magnificent Volta Lake.

From 1952-1955 when the first batch of BIHECANS completed their School Certificate course, BIHECO was a private Mission School. It was, however, absorbed into the public school system as a Government Assisted College in the same year, 1955. The school ran the only the GCE Ordinary Level programme until 1962 when the Sixth Form course was introduced allowing for the Advanced Level pre-university programme.

Like most of Ghana's secondary schools, BIHECO now runs the Senior Secondary School Certificate programme of 3 years duration since the GCE 'O' and 'A' Levels were phased out in 1996.

Great Missionaries like Rev. Fr. John Beeckers, Rev. Frs. Velboer, Brockhoff, Manshanden, Weyden, Zijlstra, Giesen, leo Brouwer, Peter de Vries, Breukel, Myerscough, and Van Dijk were those who actively raised funds throughout the diocese of Keta and in Europe for the opening of this College.

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Accra-North
Ghana. West Africa

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