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[[File:Dandeson Crowther.png|thumb|Dandeson Coates Crowther <ref>Kingdon, Zachary. (2008). Reinterpreting the African Collections of the World Museum Liverpool.</ref>]]
[[Archdeacon]] '''Dandeson Coates Crowther''' [[OBE]] (24 September 1844 - 5 January 1938) was
He was ordained at Saint Mary's Parish Church by Samuel Ajayi Crowther.<ref name=":0" /> Prior to this role, he held a few temporary roles. This included jobs such as secretary and chaplain<ref name=":2">CMS Register 1804-1894, List III, no. 155</ref> for his father Samuel Ajayi Crowther and Senior Pastor in [[Bonny Island|Bonny]], Niger Delta.<ref name=":0" />
== Early
Dandeson Coates Crowther was the youngest son of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was the first African [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] Bishop in [[Nigeria]].<ref name=":1" /> His father, Archbishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, was born in 1807 in Osogun, [[Yorubaland]], Nigeria.<ref name=":3">"Samuel Ajayi Crowther | Slavery and Remembrance". ''slaveryandremembrance.org''.</ref> He was enslaved at 13 years old and traded to Portuguese slave ships.<ref name=":3" /> After [[Great Britain]] abolished the slave trade in 1807, Royal Navy patrols stopped Ajayi's captive ship in April 1822, transporting these newly freedmen to [[Freetown]], Sierra Leone.<ref name=":3" /> He was converted to the Anglican Church and adopted the name Crowther.<ref name=":3" /> Dandeson Crowther, born in 1844, was the youngest of his children.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
===Education===
Dandeson Coates Crowther was
== Mission
Crowther struggled throughout his mission as some of the leaders of the Christian Missionary Society did not want any non-native Europeans to run the Mission. The backlash against African-born [[
== Legacy ==
[[File:Archdeacon Dandeson Crowther.png|thumb|Archdeacon Dandeson Coates Crowther <ref>{{Cite web |title=The black bishop: Samuel Adjai Crowther. With preface by Eugene Stock ... with 16 illustrations and map. |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433068285844?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}}</ref>]]
Before passing away in 1938, Crowther was involved in the Delta Revolt and often fought for Africans to run their continent without the sole reliance on Europeans.<ref name=":0" /> The Niger Delta separated from the Christian Missionary Society after Crowther advocated for a self-governing African church, establishing the Niger Delta Pastorate in 1892.<ref name=":1" /> To carry out this mission, he often dabbled in translating work. He translated the [[Book of Common Prayer|Anglican Book of Common Prayer]], "Dusk to Dusk," into [[Igbo language|Igbo]], a language of [[Igboland|southeastern Nigeria]]. He also translated a portion of the book of [[Jeremiah]] of
==References==
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[[Category:20th-century Nigerian Anglican priests]]
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