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THE LIFE AND WORK OF AGORI IWE
FIRST BISHOP OF BENIN DIOCESE
(ANGLICAN COMMUNION)

By

Sam U. Erivwo, Ph.D.

Originally Published in 1998 
Reproduced in URHOBO WAADO by kind permission of Professor Sam U. Erivwo
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgment

About the Author

Forword

Preface

The Story in Pictures

Chapter One: Prologue

Chapter Two: Parentage and Family Background

Chapter Three: Early Life

Chapter Four: Agori and Ebosa Crisis

Chapter Five: Family Life

Chapter Six: Agori of Okuama

Chapter Seven: Agori As a Physician: Reminiscences

Chapter Eight: Education

Chapter Nine: Agori Iwe in Eastern Nigeria

Chapter Ten: Agori Iwe's Work in UrhoboLand

Chapter Eleven: Agori Iwe As Bishop

Chapter Twelve: His Administration

Chapter Thirteen: Growth in the Diocese of Benin 1965 - 1969

Chapter Fourteen: Crisis in Benin Diocese Under Agori Iwe

Chapter Fifteen: Benin Diocese During and After the Civil War

Chapter Sixteen: Splitting of Benin Diocese

Chapter Seventeen: Sermons and Addresses

Chapter Eighteen: Agori in the Secular World

Chapter Nineteen: Epilogue: Retirement and Rest

Appendix I: Agori Iwe's Presidential Addresses to His Synods

Appendix II: People's Opinion of Bishop Agori Iwe


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