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[Samuel Ajayi Crowther]

Bishop in the Niger Territories, 1891

In Canterbury Cathedral on St. Peters Day, June 29, 1864, Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1807 - 1891) was ordained the first African bishop in Nigeria for the countries of Western Africa beyond the limits of the Queens domains.

Crowthers gifts to the church were many. A skilled linguist, he helped translate the Bible and Book of Common Prayer into Yoruba and other West African languages. He founded schools and training colleges, where he encouraged the study of the Gospel, traditional subjects, and farming methods that allowed students to raise basic crops and cotton as sources of income.

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