January 29, 1976: Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo is born. Pastor Kingsley is the founder and lead Pastor of David’s Christian Centre (DCC). He is a popular YouTuber and known for his teachings in love, dating, relationships, sex and marriage. He is happily married to Pastor Mildred Okonkwo since 2005 and they have 3 beautiful children together.
January 29, 1968: Pastor Adeolu Adeboye is born in Ifewara, Osun State. Pastor Adeolu is the first son of Pastor E. A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He went on to study Software Engineering in University of Hertfordshire, UK. Pastor Adeolu together with his wife, Tope run a luxury fashion brand, Apparel and Duchess Boutique that has branches in Lagos, London and Abuja.
January 29, 2000: Pastor Biodun and Modele Fatoyinbo weds. Pastor Biodun and Modele are senior Pastors of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) international, with her headquarters located in Abuja. According to Pastor Modele, she and her husband started off in a one room apartment with no kitchen when they got married before God changed their story. Their marriage is blessed with four children, 3 girls and a boy.
January 29, 1953: His Eminence, Dr. Samuel Chukwemeka Kanu Uche is born. Dr. Samuel is the Prelate Emeritus of the Methodist Church of Nigeria and native of Imo state, southeastern Nigeria. He was ordained a priest in 1982 and elected Bishop in August 1998 and Archbishop in 2009. Dr. Samuel Kanu Uche emerged the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria in 2013 against 9 other episcopates after a keenly contested election becoming the first Igbo leader of the Church in its 171 years of existence in Nigeria.
January 29, 1944: His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan is born in Kabba, Kogi State of Nigeria. Cardinal John during his school days at Mount St. Michael’s Secondary School, Aliade, Benue State, Nigeria between 1957 – 1962, made distinctions in his SSCE; a record no one has yet broken in that school. In November, 1982 and at the age of 38, Pope Saint John Paull II appointed Cardinal John the Auxiliary Bishop of Ilorin and ordained him in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome in January 6, 1983. This made him become the second youngest Bishop in Nigeria after Cardinal Arinze.
January 29, 1499: Katherine von Bora, a German nun who married Martin Luther in 1525, is born. At their wedding, she was 26 and he was 41.
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