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Adelakun Howells

Anglican bishop (1905–1963)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ4681836 ↗
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Adelakun Williamson Howells OBE was an Anglican Bishop in the second half of the 20th century.

He was born on 17 September 1905, educated at King's College, Lagos and ordained in 1928. He was a Tutor at the CMS Training College at Awka and then held incumbenciesat Enugu and Fourah Bay. In 1951 he became Provost of Lagos and in 1955 its third Bishop, a post he held until his death on 7 March 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adelakun Howells” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.