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Samuel Crowther (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891), was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. Born in Osogun (in what is now Ado-Awaye, Oyo State, Nigeria), he and his family were captured by Fulani slave raiders when he was about twelve years old.
- 1864–1891
- Church of Nigeria
- Niger
Samuel Ajayi Crowther; Información personal; Nacimiento: 1807-1810 Estado Oyo, clan de Yoruba, actual Nigeria: Fallecimiento: 1891 Lagos : Causa de muerte: Accidente cerebrovascular: Sepultura: Estado de Lagos: Nacionalidad: Británica y nigeriana: Religión: Anglicanismo: Educación; Educado en: Universidad de Sierra Leona ...
- 1807-1810, Estado Oyo, clan de Yoruba, actual Nigeria
Samuel Crowther (born c. 1809, Oshogun, Yoruba region [Nigeria]—died December 31, 1891, Lagos, Southern Nigeria) was the first African to be ordained by the Church Missionary Society, who was in 1864 consecrated bishop of the Niger territory.
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Crowther, Samuel Adjai [or Ajayi] (c. 1807-1891) | History of Missiology. African missionary and bishop. Crowther was born with the name Ajayi in Osogun, in the Egba section of the Yoruba people, in what is now western Nigeria.
22 de may. de 2009 · Samuel Adjai (or Ajayi) Crowther was the first bishop of Niger and the first Black bishop in the Anglican Church. As a teen, he was abducted into slavery then traded and sold a number of times before being rescued by Anglican missionaries. He went on to become an explorer, translator, and abolitionist.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary bishop charged with evangelizing the territories that became modern Nigeria. Over the last decades of the 19th century Crowther was the best-known Christian of African descent in the British empire.
22 de feb. de 2017 · A rough contemporary of Spurgeon, Crowther became one of the most influential figures in African missions. CROWTHER’S LIFE AND MINISTRY. Born Ajayi Crowther in what is now Western Nigeria, he was kidnapped as a 12-year-old boy by Muslim raiders and eventually sold to Portuguese slave traders.
