International Advisory Board
Attendees at the April 2008 Consultation on Early African Christianity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lamin Sanneh
D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity and Professor of History at Yale University
Metropolitan Bishop
Bishop of Damietta, Kafr El-Sheikh and the Monastery of Saint Demiana, Barrari, Belkas
Benezet Bujo
Professor in the department of Moral Theology and Ethical Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Douglas Carew
Vice-Chancellor, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) in Kenya
Mamadou N’Diaye
Dean of the seminary in Bamako (Mali)
Bishop Walter Obare
Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya
Bulus Galadima
Provost, Jos ECWA Theological Seminary in Jos, Nigeria
Michel Willy Libambu
Professor of Patristics, at Catholic University of Kinshasa
John Azumah
Research Fellow with the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Centre in Ghana
Bishop Antonius Marcus
Coptic Bishop of South Africa, cathedral and monastery of St. Mark in Johannesburg
Desta Heliso
Director, Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology (EGST)
Isaac Zokoué
Professor of Théologie Systématique, Faculté de Théologie Évangélique de Bangui, République Centrafricaine
Rev. Tolbert Thomas Jallah, Jr.
Secretary General of FECCIWA (Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa) since June 2008. He has also served as a pastor in the Lutheran Church in Liberia
Bishop Mouneer Anis
Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa and President Bishop of the Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East
Celestin Kouassi
Professor of Church History and Academic Dean at FATEAC (La Faculté de Théologie Evangélique de l’Alliance Chrétienne) Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
Bishop Angaelos
General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. He is currently the Patriarchal Exarch for the Youth Ministry at the Patriarchal Center and the Coptic Orthodox Theological College at Stevenage, United Kingdom
Thomas Oduro
Principal, Good News Theological College & Seminary. M.A. in Systematic Theology and a Ph.D. in History of Christianity from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Founding member of the Circle of Concerned Woman Theologians. She is the director of the Institute of African Woman in Religion and Culture, based at Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana
Tite Tiénou
Senior Vice President of Education, TEDS Academic Dean, and Professor of Theology of Mission at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois
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