28th October, 2020: Chief Simon Ademole Abioye is laid to rest in Erin-Ile, Kwara State. Chief Simon Abioye was the biological father of Bishop David Abioye.
28th October 1636: Harvard College now Harvard University is founded on the approval of the Great and General Court of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England with £400. The College was founded with the primary purpose of preparing ministers and religious educators.
28th October 1892: Edith Warner arrives Lagos, Nigeria, and is transferred to shore by hoists and derricks as if she were a bale of cotton. She will serve as a missionary in Nigeria for decades, often venturing where no white person had gone before. She was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society, CMS.
28th October 1926: Pope Pius XI consecrates six indigenous Chinese Priests as Bishops in St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome, part of a new policy to make the Chinese Church more nationalistic.
28th October, 1958: The Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is unexpectedly elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII. Expected to be a mere caretaker in office, he became one of the Catholic Church’s most activist Popes, convening the Second Vatican Council in 1962. He served as the Head of the Catholic Church until his passing in 1963.
28th October 1646: John Eliot, a Puritan Missionary, preaches the first worship service for Native Americans in their native language at Nonantum, Massachusetts.
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