Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin
The Spiritual Father and Chairman, Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, Prophet Samuel Adefila Abidoye, is dead.
The Secretary General of the Church, Special Apostle Ademola Odetundun confirmed his passage, adding that he died Sunday morning at the age of 103 in his Ilorin home, the Kwara state capital.
While the Church awaits official reaction from the Secretariat of the Church, headed by the Secretary General, Special Apostle Ademola Odetundun, sources said that burial arrangements would be announced in due course.
It was also gathered that the remains of the Spiritual Father had been deposited at the mortuary in Ogbomoso.
Talking about some of the achievements of the Spiritual Father, some Church members pointed at the movement of the seat of power of the Church from Kaduna to Galilee, located in Orile-Igbon, Oyo state, “which has now become a mega city”.
Baba Aladura, Dr. Prophet Samuel Adefila Abidoye, was born on June 26, 1920 as a Prince, at Omu-Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. His father was Odetundun Abegunde, who was Oba Olomu of Omu Aran, which was in Ilorin Province at that time. His mother’s name was Tinuade Tinuola, daughter of Niniola, a Princess of Oponda in the present Isin Local Government of Kwara State.
He started schooling at N. A. Primary School, Omu Aran in May 1934. He lost his father on the Valentine’s day of 14th February 1938 which made the Lovers’ Day especially memorable to him personally. Around 1938, a Reverend Man of God, Senior Apostle Prophet Peter Oyinloye from Rore near Omu Aran, introduced Baba Samuel Abidoye to the Cherubim and Seraphim Church. Meanwhile, just as other converts in other folds, this new convert and others were made to memorize the catechism, which they had to recite before baptism. Thereafter, he was given the grace of seeing our Lord Jesus Christ in his dreams and in a trance in 1958.
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