Otober 31, (THEWILL) – The Bishop of Lagos Diocese and Archbishop, Province of Lagos (Anglican Communion) Church of Nigeria, Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye, is dead.
Olumakaiye, according to inside sources, died on Monday, after battling an undisclosed ailment. He was 53.
Until his death, he was the Bishop of Lagos, and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos (Anglican Communion), Church of Nigeria.
He was Bishop of Osun North East until 2018 and presented as the Archbishop of Lagos Ecclesiastical Province on the 7th of November, 2021 at the Cathedral Church of Advent, Life Camp, Abuja.
A native of Idanre in Ondo State, Olumakaiye was born on 28th January 1969, at Okene, into the family of the Venerable and Mrs. T.A. Olumakaiye.
He started his Education at St. Michael’s primary school, Esie in 1975, from where he proceeded to Government Secondary School, Omu-Aran, Kwara State in 1982.
He left Omu-Aran in 1983 and concluded his Secondary education at Cherubim Seraphim Secondary School, Ilorin, in 1986.
Between 1991 and 1993, he obtained his first degree in Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan, a Master’s Degree in Religious Studies in 2001, and a doctorate degree in Church History and Doctrine from the same university.
Following his training and graduation from Immanuel College of Theology, Ibadan, he was made a deacon in June 1993 and ordained a priest in December, the same year, by E.A. Ademowo, Bishop of Ilesha Diocese.
He started his ministry at Christ the Saviour Anglican Church, Cappa, Ilesa, in June 1993. While at Cappa, he was preferred a Statutory Canon in November 1999, to occupy Archbishop Adetiloye’s stall, and Bishop Ademowo preferred him an Archdeacon of Imo Archdeaconry and Vicar of St. James’s Church, Imo Ilesa, 2000.
As the Vicar of St. Matthew’s Church and Archdeacon of Ijebu-Jesa, he lifted the status of St. Matthew’s church to become a cathedral in January 2009, and he became the first Dean of Cathedral St. Matthew Ijebu-Jesa, Ijesa North Missionary Diocese.
He was elected Bishop on May 22, 2009, at the age of 40, he has consecrated Bishop on Sunday, July 12, 2009, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, while he was enthroned on Thursday, July 16, 2009, at Cathedral Church of St. Philip’s, Otan Ayegbaju as the first Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Osun North East.
Within two years of his Episcopacy in the Diocese, he built a multi-million naira Bishop’s court, a chapel, and a library and Resource Centre. The Diocese Headquarters also has a hall, Bishop’s office Complex school, and many other structures.
He also built a prayer mountain and a prayer town in the Diocese. A quarter of Otan Ayegbaju was named after him by the Owa of Otan Ayegbaju, Oba Lukman Adesola Ojo Fadipe (Owa Olatanka III).
Olumakaiye has served as the Coordinator, of prayer convocation for Ibadan province: the secretary of supra west, Church of Nigeria (compromising of 63 Dioceses): the secretary of the proprietors desk of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo. He was a member of the pension and gratuity board, supra west church of Nigeria, and a member of the governing council, of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo.
He was the first Nigerian priest to preach at Melbourne church, London. For four years, he was an annual guest lecturer at St. Luke’s Central, Birmingham. UK,(2011-2015). In 2003, he attended the world mission conference in Derbyshire and the University of Birmingham.
Olumakaiye was married to Motunrayo Funke Olumakaiye, a professor and former head of the department of nutrition and consumer sciences, faculty of agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile-Ife, Osun state.
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