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The movement was founded by Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa. Who was a carpenter born in Dahomey(Benin) in 1909
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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"
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Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa Raised a former protestant founded his church in September 1947 soon after his revelation.
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The (CCC) Celestial Church of Christ was recognized by the Republic of Dahomey and authorized in 1965.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The second successor Bada who was head of the church until his death on 8 September 2000. Alexander Abiodun Adebayo Bada
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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)
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Benoit Adeogun was the fourth successor and was the leading pastor from 2001 to his death in 2010.