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The African Church is a Christian denomination that was established in the British colonial areas that later became Nigeria in 1901
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The Church held its first service on 17 October 1901
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Moves to incorporate similar African Churches (specifically, United Native African Church, U.N.A., and the United African Methodist Church, U.A.M.) nearly engulfed the African Churches in an internal crisis between 1927 and 1937.
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Since 1983 clergy are trained at the African Church College of Theology
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Since 1992 the African Church College of Theology has been affiliated with the University of Ibadan
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As of 2006 the church membership was about 2,080,000, with 580 priests in 47 dioceses, primarily in Nigeria