RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

1809 - 1891

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Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891) was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. Born in Osogun (in what is now Ado-Awaye, Oyo State, Nigeria), he and his family were captured by Fulani slave raiders when he was about twelve years old. This took place during the Yoruba civil wars, notably the Owu wars of 1821–1829, where his village Osogun was ransacked. Ajayi was later on resold to Portuguese slave dealers, where he was put on board to be transported to the New World through the Atlantic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Ajayi Crowther is the 1,341st most popular religious figure (up from 3,035th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Nigeria (up from 86th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Nigerian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Samuel Ajayi Crowther ranks 1,341 out of 3,187. Before him are Edith Cavell, Hieronymus von Colloredo, Neferneferuaten, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Nusaybah bint Ka'ab, and Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet. After him are Blandina, Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba, Camillo Ruini, Al-Qushayri, Anastasios of Albania, and Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Samuel Ajayi Crowther ranks 22. Before him are Juliusz Słowacki, Ljudevit Gaj, Hermann Grassmann, Prince Albert of Prussia, Matsumura Sōkon, and Bettino Ricasoli. After him are Fredrik Pacius, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Juan Donoso Cortés, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, and Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel. Among people deceased in 1891, Samuel Ajayi Crowther ranks 40. Before him are Princess Cecilie of Baden, Johan Jongkind, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Théodore de Banville, Kalākaua, and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. After him are Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Fredrik Pacius, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Joseph E. Johnston, and Hannibal Hamlin.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Samuel Ajayi Crowther ranks 13 out of 309. Before him are Francis Arinze (1932), Hugo Weaving (1960), Muhammadu Buhari (1942), Nana Asmaʼu (1793), Fela Kuti (1938), and Usman dan Fodio (1754). After him are Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Bola Tinubu (1952), Jay-Jay Okocha (1973), John Obi Mikel (1987), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954), and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Nigeria

Among religious figures born in Nigeria, Samuel Ajayi Crowther ranks 2. Before him are Francis Arinze (1932). After him are John Onaiyekan (1944), Peter Okpaleke (1963), and Anthony Olubunmi Okogie (1936).

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