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Albert Aduloju Agbaje (12 June 1937 – 31 January 2005) was the first Anglican Bishop of Sabongidda-Ora in Bendel Province of the
Church of Nigeria The Church of Nigeria is the Anglicanism, Anglican Church body, church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest Province (Anglican), province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptised membership (not by attendance), after the Church of Englan ...
. Agbaje was born on June 12, 1937, in
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. He went to Victory College, Ikare, and graduated from Immanuel College of Theology, Kudeti-Ibadan in 1963. He subsequently graduated from the
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and the
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where he obtained a master's degree and a doctorate. He held several posts in the Ministry of Education, rising to Provost of the Lagos State of Education,
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, Lagos in 1982. From 1984, he began full time church ministry and was elected as the first Bishop of Sabongidda-Ora in 1993. In 2003 the Church of Nigeria was restructured, and Agbaje became the first archbishop of the new Ecclesiastical Province of Bendel, a position he held until his death on 31 January 2005.


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1937 births 2005 deaths Anglican bishops of Sabongidda-Ora Anglican archbishops of Bendel 21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria Nigerian Anglicans {{Nigeria-Anglican-bishop-stub