Prelate emeritus of the Methodist Church in Nigeria and former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Sunday Mbang is dead.
Mbang, the first black president of the World Methodist Council, died on May 16, 2023 at the age of 86.
Babatunde Taiwo, the secretary of the church, announced the death on Wednesday, and condoled his family and the people of Akwa Ibom, his state of origin, for the loss.
The church described the former CAN president as a “man who embodied the pioneering and path-finding spirit of Nigerian Methodism as he scored many firsts”.
“He will surely and sorely be missed by his beloved Church, Methodist Church to which he gave spiritual, intellectual and servant leadership for more than two decades, and the entire Body of Christ in Nigeria and the diasporas,” the statement reads.
Mbang was born in Idua Eket, Eket LGA of Akwa Ibom on August 26,1936.
He studied at the Effoi group school, University of Ibadan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Harvard University, USA and later became a minister in 1961 after going through theological education and training in Nigeria and overseas.
