Closely related to them was the birth of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804) and the CMS-inspired founding of the West African Mission[3] in the same year.
In 1809, CMS commenced missionary activities among the liberated African community of Sierra Leone, many of whom were originally Yoruba, Hausa, Efik and Igbo of present-day Nigeria.
A set of missionaries was sent in 1845, the group landed in Badagry where many stayed to establish a mission while some continued the journey to Abeokuta.
[5] In January 1852, White held an outreach event at Iga Idunganran that included Akitoye, many of his chiefs and residents, he later chose a site at Ebute Ero and built a bamboo structure to preach the gospel.
[6] Early missionaries such as Henry Townsend, Charles Andrew Gollmer[7] and Samuel Ajayi Crowther gave rise to the Yoruba Mission.
Henry Townsend later led a congregation of English and Yoruba people at St Peters/Holy Trinity Church of Oko-Faji.
Following Crowther's death, the CMS home office (secretariat) in London chose Joseph Sidney Hill as successor instead of any of the more suitable Africans, nearly all of whom were already serving as Assistant Bishops.
F. Melville Jones, a European Missionary educationist[11] and Principal of St Andrew's College, was consecrated as the first Bishop of Lagos.
Then following in succession, the episcopacy of Seth Irunsewe Kale from 1963 to 1974; Festus Oluwole Segun from January 1975 to 1985 and Joseph Abiodun Adetiloye from 1985 to 1999.
The Lagos Pastorate Association came into being in 1876, as part of a movement to organize the local Anglican community to be a self reliant Church.
The current Archbishop is Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye, Bishop of Lagos, who was presented on 7 November 2021 at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Abuja.
[23] Smith graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1902 to a title (curacy) at St John's, Lowestoft.
[28] Previously Vicar of St Nicholas' Church, Radford, Coventry since 1941, Sherwood-Jones was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Paul the Apostle 1944 (25 January) at Westminster Abbey by William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury;[29] Norman was the son of Thomas Sherwood Jones, Bishop of Hulme.