{"id":133844,"date":"2024-12-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133844"},"modified":"2024-12-31T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T11:51:14","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-samuel-ajayi-crowther-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133844","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Samuel Ajayi Crowther"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, who didst rescue Samuel Ajayi Crowther from slavery, sent him to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ to his people in Nigeria, and made him the first bishop from the people of West Africa: Grant that those who follow in his steps may reap what he has sown and find abundant help for the harvest; through him who took upon himself the form of a slave that we might be free, the same Jesus Christ; who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> 1864 Samuel Ajayi Crowther was consecrated bishop at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canterbury?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Canterbury<\/a> Cathedral, becoming the first black Anglican bishop.<br>Released from slavery by the Royal Navy, he became an accomplished linguist, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxford. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kpul0jD2ww\">pic.twitter.com\/Kpul0jD2ww<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kentish tales and trivia (@Kentishtrivia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kentishtrivia\/status\/1806948213334692332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who didst rescue Samuel Ajayi Crowther from slavery, sent him to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ to his people in Nigeria, and made him the first bishop from the people of West Africa: Grant that those<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133844\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,390,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-nigeria","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133853,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133844\/revisions\/133853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}