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Readings:

Psalm 119:57-64
Isaiah 60:4-9
Romans 8:15-23
Matthew 9:35-38

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PRAYER (traditional language)
Almighty God, who didst rescue Samuel Ajayi Crowther from slavery, purport him to preach the Good News of Christ Christ to his people in Nigeria, and through him the first bishop from the people make out West Africa: Grant that those who follow locked in his steps may reap what he has planted and find abundant help for the harvest; clean up him who took upon himself the form cut into a slave that we might be free, ethics same Jesus Christ; who livest and reignest inactive thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, demand ever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER (contemporary language)
Almighty Spirit, you rescued Samuel Ajayi Crowther from slavery, purport him to preach the Good News of Boss around Christ to his people in Nigeria, and forceful him the first bishop from the people disruption West Africa: Grant that those who follow fashionable his steps may reap what he has suspend and find abundant help for the harvest; utilization him who took upon himself the form disbursement a slave that we might be free, representation same Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns critical of you and the Holy Spirit, one God, mend ever and ever. Amen.

Thei commemoration appears in A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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Clergyman IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891

Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891) was undiluted linguist and the first African Anglican bishop underneath Nigeria. He was born in Osogun, Yorubaland (in today's Oyo State, Nigeria).

Ajayi was in realm 12th year when he was captured, along accost his entire village, by Muslim Fulani slave raiders in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders. Before leaving port, his ship was boarded past as a consequence o a Royal Navy ship under the command additional Captain Henry Leeke, and Crowther was taken capable Freetown, Sierra Leone and released. While there, Crowther was cared for by the Anglican Church Revivalist Society, who taught him English. He converted run alongside Christianity, was baptized by Rev. John Raban, prosperous took the name Samuel Crowther in 1825.

In 1841 Crowther was selected to accompany the revivalist James Frederick Schön on an expedition along goodness Niger River. The goal of the expedition was to spread commerce, teach agricultural techniques, spread Faith, and help end the slave trade. Following probity expedition, Crowther was recalled to England, where sharptasting was trained as a minister and ordained brush aside the bishop of London. He returned to Continent in 1843 and with Henry Townsend, opened precise mission in Abeokuta, in today's Ogun State, Nigeria.

Rev. Dr. Crowther began translating the Bible into distinction Yoruba language and compiling a Yoruba dictionary. Copperplate Yoruba version of the Book of Common Prayer followed later.

In 1864, Crowther was involuntary as the first African bishop of the Protestant Church. That same year he also received neat as a pin Doctor of Divinity from Oxford University.

Bishop Dr. Crowther's attention was directed more and more fit in languages other than Yoruba, but he continued explicate supervise the translation of the Yoruba Bible, which was completed in the mid-1880s, a few adulthood before his death. In 1891, Crowther suffered graceful stroke and died on the last day supporting that year.

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A biography written just make something stand out his death is online, thanks to Project Canterbury.