27th April 2013: Bishop Peter Awelewa Adebiyi retires at the age of 70. He was the Pioneer Bishop of the Diocese of Lagos West, Anglican Communion (1999 – 2013) and a former Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Owo, Ondo State. During his tenure as Bishop of Owo Diocese, he established a secondary school and a palm kernel plantation that still generates income for the Diocese of Owo till date. In the Diocese of Lagos West, he grew the number of parishes from 100 to 300 and established a hospital in Lagos State Nigeria.
27th April 1943: Peter Awelewa Adebiyi is born. He was the Pioneer Bishop of the Diocese of Lagos West, Anglican Communion (1999 – 2013) and a former Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Owo, Ondo State. He passed on to glory on 10th February 2022.
27th April 1926: Timothy Francis LaHaye (Tim LaHaye) is born. He was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister. He was also an author who wrote books including: ‘The Spirit Controlled Temperament’ and ‘Left Behind’. He went to be with the Lord on 25th July 2016.
27th April 1959: Fola Ojo is born. He is the Founder of the City of Praise, Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States of America. He is a songwriter, counsellor and a journalist with the Punch.
27th April 1775: Peter Boehler goes to be with the Lord. He was a German-English Moravian Bishop and missionary and one of the many missionaries sent out to the Americas in the early 18th century by the leader of the Moravian Church, Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf. The Moravian is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, 60 years before Luther’s Reformation.
27th April 1934: Brennan Manning is born. He was an American author known for his bestselling book: “The Ragamuffin Gospel.”
27th April 2018: The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) conducts a Press Conference to decry the continued múrder and mayhem unleashed against Christians by Muslims in Nigeria. The President of CAN, Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle called on all Christians to undertake peaceful protests around their places of worship on Sunday 29th April and Sunday 6th May 2018.
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