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World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit offered a warm congratulations to the primate of The Church of the Lord, Aladura, Worldwide, an African initiated church founded in 1925.
Ositelu, who is celebrating 20 years as primate, is the son of the church founder, Josiah Olunowo Ositelu. The Church of the Lord joined the WCC in 1975.
Tveit wrote: “As we celebrate this year the 70th anniversary of the WCC, we are proud to claim a wide diversity among our ecumenical members and we recognise the considerable revival amongst African Christians which your church has supported, with the mainstreaming of African culture and customs into liturgy and church life.”
Ositelu completed his secondary education in 1970 and worked with the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (now PLC) from 1971 to 1974. He left Nigeria for Germany to study in Europe and the United States of America.
He successfully completed a dissertation titled: “Resystemization Life-Cycle – Computer Economics,” which earned him his Ph.D. in Computer Science. In 1991, he undertook the Pastoral Studies course with the University of Hagen in Germany. From 1993 through 1996, he undertook a Bachelor of Theology course at Covington Theological Seminary, Rossville (USA). From 1997 to 2000, he further took a doctorate degree programme at the same institution with a dissertation titled: “African Instituted Churches”.
