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The Celestial Church of Christ (CCC)

  • Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa's Birth

    The movement was founded by Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa. Who was a carpenter born in Dahomey(Benin) in 1909
  • A Revelation

    Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa had a revelation on the 27th of May 1947, during a solar eclipse that day in a forest where he was lost. He felt the calling for him to pray to heal the "sick, and to raise the dead"
  • The Founding of the (CCC) Celestial Church of Christ

    Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa Raised a former protestant founded his church in September 1947 soon after his revelation.
  • The Republic of Dahomey (former name of Benin)

    The (CCC) Celestial Church of Christ was recognized by the Republic of Dahomey and authorized in 1965.
  • A New Successor

    Oshoffa was succeeded by Alexander Abiodun Adebayo Bada after his death. The movement has continued to grow since Oshoffa's death, but has also suffered setbacks because the matter of the successor.
  • Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa's Death

    The Prophet, Reverend, Pastor, and Founder, he occupied the highest office of the movement. Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa died in in 1985 in Lagos, Nigeria from a collision accident.
  • Going International

    The late 1990's the (CCC) had shown its willingness to use the Internet as a privileged platform in means of allowing the many existing branches of the church within the African Diaspora to share to places like the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, USA as well as to maintain contact with each other and with Nigeria, the country in which the church is the most popular.
  • Alexander Abiodun Adebayo Bada's Death

    The second successor Bada who was head of the church until his death on 8 September 2000. Alexander Abiodun Adebayo Bada
  • The Death of a Third Leader

    Philip Hunsu Ajose was the third successor and by far had the shortest time as the successor for he died with the year of his time as leader. (March 2001)
  • The Fourth Successor - Benoit Adeogun

    Benoit Adeogun was the fourth successor and was the leading pastor from 2001 to his death in 2010.