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By 1950, Oyo and Ondo-Ilorin had been separated from the Bight of Benin Vicariate, and Lagos became headquarters of the Archdiocese of Lagos. Leo Taylor, a former principal at St Gregory's College, Lagos, was Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos. In 1954, the first Marian congress commemorating the apparition of Blessed Virgin Mary at ...
Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye (28 January 1969 – 30 October 2022) was a bishop of the Church of Nigeria and Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Lagos, Nigeria. Until his death, he was the Bishop of Lagos, and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos (Anglican Communion), Church of Nigeria [1] having been Bishop of Osun North East Diocese, Otan Ayegbaj until 2018, and presented as ...
The first archbishop of the province was Ephraim Ademowo, who served from the creation of the province of Lagos in 2002 until 2012; Ademowo was also Bishop of Lagos and a former Bishop of Ilesa and had served as the only Archbishop of Province 1 (i.e. Lagos) since the three provinces were erected in 2000. [14]
Each Archbishop is also the bishop of one of the dioceses in his Province. The pre-eminent Archbishop, The Primate of All Nigeria , is chosen from the 14 Archbishops, and becomes Bishop of Abuja . The Primate is Henry Ndukuba , elected in 2020.
Michael Fape [1] is an Anglican archbishop [2] in Nigeria: [3] he is the current Bishop of Remo and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos. Fape was educated at the University of Ibadan and ordained in 1984. He was made a Canon in Ibadan Diocese in 1995 and an Archdeacon in 1997. He became a bishop in 2003; and an archbishop in 2016.
On 17 April 1951, at the inauguration of the Province of West Africa, Leslie Vining was elected and presented as the first Archbishop of the new Province. In 1952, he divided Lagos diocese into four: Lagos, Ibadan, Ondo-Benin and Northern Nigeria; and the Diocese on the Niger into two parts — on the Niger and Niger Delta. He died at sea in ...
Leo Hale Taylor CBE, SMA was an American-born priest of the Catholic Church and member of the Society of African Missions.He was Archbishop of Lagos from 1939 to 1965. Taylor was the first principal of St Gregory's College, Lagos and as bishop, he was considered a pillar of support for the school.
This is an alphabetical list of bishops and archbishops of the Anglican Communion, with links to articles about their dioceses or provinces where possible.. As of 2020 the Anglican Communion (as recognised by the Anglican Consultative Council) consists of 865 dioceses and 18 additional Ordinary jurisdictions (see list below) giving a total of 883 bishops; this total includes 77 archbishops (or ...