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Samuel Ajayi 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. [ 2 ]
Samuel Crowther may refer to: Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1809–1891), first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria; Samuel Crowther (journalist) (1880–1947), American journalist, writer and biographer; Sam Crowther (born 2000), Dutch footballer
In 2021, the Very Reverend Owen C. Thompson became the first African American dean of the cathedral. Rev. Thompson is the son of The Right Reverend Herbert Thompson, Jr., who served as the Diocesan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio from 1992 to 2005. That same year, a Richard, Fowkes & Co. Opus 24 organ was installed in the ...
Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Cincinnati on June 19, 1821, taking all of Ohio from the Diocese of Bardstown. [10] The pope named the missionary Reverend Edward Fenwick as the first bishop of Cincinnati. [11] Fenwick travelled to Europe in 1823 to raise funding for the new diocese.
Karl Alter was born on August 18, 1885, in Toledo, Ohio, to John P. and Elizabeth (née Kuttner) Alter. [1] His father was a cigar manufacturer and liquor dealer. Karl Alter attended St. John's High School in Delphos, Ohio, and was a member of the first graduating class of St. John's College in Toledo in 1905. [2]
Milton Sayler – Cincinnati city councilman, congressman, 1873–1879; Bob Schaffer – former Republican congressman from Colorado; Jean Schmidt – Republican congresswoman, 2005–2013; Ohio state senator 2001–2004, 2021– Bob Schuler – Ohio state senator, 2002–2009; P.G. Sittenfeld – former Cincinnati city councilman, convicted of ...
Townsend was born in Exeter, in Devon, England on December 1, 1815. [1]Ordained in England in 1842, Townsend set off for Sierra Leone with Charles Andrew Gollmer and Samuel Ajayi Crowther, [2] landing there that same year; after working there only a few months, he was transferred to the Yoruba mission. [1]
St. Francis Seraph Church is a Roman Catholic parish in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1859 by Franciscan Friars of the Province Of St. John the Baptist on the site of the first Catholic parish in Cincinnati, Christ Church, which was built in 1819. Bishop Fenwick, in 1822, decided to move Christ Church to a location on ...