Charles Phillips (bishop)

Charles Phillips was a member of the Church Mission Society (CMS) based in the Lagos Colony who became Bishop of Ondo.

[7] On the other hand, Phillips reported that "the generality of our Lagos young men begin to think that polygamy is not opposed to the principles of Christianity".

In July 1879, a Sango priest from out of town called on Phillips, and cynically described how he had accepted gifts to suppress the disease, which would not in fact happen until it had run its course and destroyed all the witches and charm-makers in the country.

[10] His son Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips, born in 1884, would become for many years organist and Master of the Music at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos.

[12] Towards the end of the Yoruba Wars, the Lagos administration, acting through Samuel Johnson and Charles Phillips, arranged a ceasefire in 1886 and then a treaty that guaranteed the independence of the Ekiti towns.

[1] In 1891 the Anglican church created the diocese of Western Equatorial Africa, based in Lagos and headed by Bishop Hill, who died of fever almost as soon as he arrived from England.

The CMS decided to create two assistant bishops to help with the workload of the large diocese and to assuage African opinion.

[6] Phillips attempted to organize a church at Ile-Ife, but met resistance from the Ooni Olubuse of Ife who did not want to upset the priests of the traditional religion.

Photograph of Lagos Mission in 1885. Back row: W.Morgan, Charles Phillips, J.White, Archdeacon Hamilton, Nathaniel Johnson, Isaac Oluwole , R.E. Willoughby Middle row: Rev. V.S.Wright, Mrs. Ingham, Bishop Ingham , Mrs Darwin Fox, Rev. James Johnson , Rev. J.W.Dickinson Front row: Rev.F.W.Dodd, Rev. W. Darwin Fox
Bishop Charles Phillips, Rev. E.M. Lijadu, and elders of the church at Ondo, 1901.