The Apostolic Church Nigeria: the 'metamorphosis' of an African Indigenous prophetic-healing movement into a classical Pentecostal denomination

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Title:	The Apostolic Church Nigeria: the 'metamorphosis' of an African Indigenous prophetic-healing movement into a classical Pentecostal denomination
Author:	Fatokun, S.A.
Year:	2006
Periodical:	Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies
Volume:	38
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	49-70
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	Pentecostalism religious history
Abstract:	This paper examines the emergence and development of The Apostolic Church Nigeria. The Apostolic Church emerged as the first classical Pentecostal denomination to be established in the country, but the history of the body which today bears this name predates 1931 - the year in which the denominational name 'The Apostolic Church' was adopted. The church, far from being founded by the European body whose name it bears today, was originally an African indigenous Pentecostal movement, the Precious Stone Society, which emerged from a prayer group and was inaugurated in 1920. In 1923 the Precious Stone Society affiliated with the Faith Tabernacle Congregation - a Holiness movement with headquarters in Philadelphia, USA. In 1931, the Nigerian Faith Tabernacle decided to de-affiliate from the Faith Tabernacle in the USA and seek affiliation with a British Pentecostal mission, the Apostolic Church in Great Britain. The paper is based on data collected through archival research, interviews and bibliographic research. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]