Samuel Olubayu Sowale is an
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
bishop in
Nigeria: he is the current
Bishop of Ilesa.
Sowale was born in 1951 at
Isara-Remo and educated at the
University of Ibadan and the
University of British Columbia. He was ordained a
deacon in 1977 and a
priest a year later. He became
canon in 1987,
archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...
in 1992,
provost in 1993 and was elected and consecrated
Bishop of Ilesa in 2000.
Notes
University of Ibadan alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
People from Ogun State
Living people
Anglican bishops of Ilesa
21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria
Anglican provosts in Africa
Church of Nigeria archdeacons
1951 births
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