Festus Segun

Festus Oluwole Segun (born Ijebu Ode, 20 March 1915) was a Nigerian Anglican bishop.[1]

He was educated at Our Saviour's Primary School in Ijebu Ode; St. Andrew's College in Oyo and Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone.

He was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1951 and a priest in 1952.[2] He held posts in Ebute Metta, Aroloya and Yaba. From 1956 to 1960 he studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City before becoming a lecturer at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. On his return to Lagos he was appointed provost of the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos, a post he held until 1970 when he became Bishop of Northern Nigeria.[3] In 1975 he was translated to Lagos.

Notes
  1. "Diocese of Lagos | Church of Nigeria | (Anglican Communion) -". www.dioceseoflagos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  3. "Osun Defender". Archived from the original on 2015-06-01. Retrieved 2015-06-01.



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