Moses Scott

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Moses Nathanael Christopher Omobiala Scott CBE (18 August 1911 - 9 May 1988) was an Anglican bishop^[1] of Sierra Leone who later became Archbishop of West Africa.

Born on 18 August 1911 and educated at a CMS Grammar School and Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone he was ordained in 1946.^[2] He was a Curate at Lunsar then Priest in charge at Makeni. In 1950 he came to study at St John's College, Nottingham and after that was a Curate at Grappenhall, Cheshire from 1951 to 1953 and then the incumbent at Bo in his home country. Later he was Archdeacon of Bonthe before elevation to the Episcopate. In 1969 he became the province’s primate, retiring in 1981. He died on 9 May 1988.^[3]

References

Religious titles
Preceded by James Lawrence Cecil Horstead	Bishop of Sierra Leone 1961 – 1981	Succeeded by Prince Thompson
Preceded by Cecil John Patterson	Archbishop of West Africa 1969 – 1981	Succeeded by Ishmael Samuel Mills Le-Marie

v t e Bishops of Sierra Leone

Owen Vidal John Weeks John Bowen Edward Beckles Henry Cheetham Graham Ingham John Taylor Smith Edmund Elwin John Walmsley George Wright James Horstead Moses Scott Prince Thompson Julius Lynch

v t e Archbishops of West Africa

Leslie Vining James Horstead Cecil Patterson Moses Scott Ishmael Mills Le-Marie George Browne Robert Okine Justice Akrofi Solomon Tilewa Johnson

Persondata
Name	Scott, Moses Nathanael Christopher Omobiala
Alternative names
Short description	Sierra Leonean archbishop
Date of birth	18 August 1911
Place of birth
Date of death	9 May 1988
Place of death

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