Classic DACB Collection

All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.

Thomas, John Josiah

1800s
Anglican Communion (Church Missionary Society)
Sierra Leone

Of Sierra Leone, West Africa. A Colony-born Christian of the Eboe Tribe. At Fourah Bay Institution. 1845, employed as a Catechist. 1856, June 8, deacon, and 1861, December 22, ordained a priest by Bishop of Sierra Leone, and stationed at Gloucester. 1862, transferred to the Native Pastorate; 1864, suspended for three years; 1867, re-engaged; and in 1870 again removed.


Source:

Church Missionary Society, Register of Missionaries (Clerical, Lay and Female) and Native Clergy from 1804 to 1904.