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International Advisory Board

Attendees at the April 2008 Consultation on Early African Christianity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Lamin Sanneh

D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity and Professor of History at Yale University 

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Metropolitan Bishop

Bishop of Damietta, Kafr El-Sheikh and the Monastery of Saint Demiana, Barrari, Belkas

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Benezet Bujo

Professor in the department of Moral Theology and Ethical Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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Douglas Carew

Vice-Chancellor, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) in Kenya

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Mamadou N’Diaye

Dean of the seminary in Bamako (Mali)

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Bishop Walter Obare

Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya

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Bulus Galadima

Provost, Jos ECWA Theological Seminary in Jos, Nigeria

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Michel Willy Libambu

Professor of Patristics, at Catholic University of Kinshasa

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John Azumah

Research Fellow with the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Centre in Ghana

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Bishop Antonius Marcus

Coptic Bishop of South Africa, cathedral and monastery of St. Mark in Johannesburg

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Desta Heliso

Director, Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology (EGST)

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Isaac Zokoué 

Professor of Théologie Systématique, Faculté de Théologie Évangélique de Bangui, République Centrafricaine

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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

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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

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Celestin Kouassi

Professor of Church History and Academic Dean at FATEAC (La Faculté de Théologie Evangélique de l’Alliance Chrétienne) Abidjan (Ivory Coast)

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Bishop Angaelos  director

 

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

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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

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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

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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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