{"id":44894,"date":"2014-07-02T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_church_sorry_for_betrayal_of_first_african_bishop\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:25:21","slug":"anglican_church_sorry_for_betrayal_of_first_african_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44894","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church sorry for &#39;betrayal&#39; of first African Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarded as the father of Anglicanism in Nigeria, Bishop Crowther, who was born as Ajayi in western Nigeria in 1807, is credited with bringing many Nigerians to Christ. So great was his impact that he was ordained the first African Anglican bishop in 1864, despite great protest.<\/p>\n<p>A former slave, Bishop Crowther became a great linguist, translator, scholar and mission teacher. He is also credited with producing the Yoruba Bible and greatly influenced how government\u2019s improved their view of Africa in the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>But despite his passion and high achievements, Bishop Crowther\u2019s mission was undermined and dismantled in the 1880s by racist white Europeans, including some of his fellow missionaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voice-online.co.uk\/article\/anglican-church-sorry-betrayal-first-african-bishop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarded as the father of Anglicanism in Nigeria, Bishop Crowther, who was born as Ajayi in western Nigeria in 1807, is credited with bringing many Nigerians to Christ. So great was his impact that he was ordained the first African<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44894\">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":[36,48,39,382,74,67,92,186,389,390,168,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-books","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-church-of-nigeria","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44894","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=44894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}