The Prelate Emeritus of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr Sunday Mbang, is dead. He was 86 years old.
Mbang, who was also the first black president of the World Methodist Council, died in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital on Tuesday, May 16.
The Secretary of the Methodist Conference, Mr. Babatunde Taiwo, said Mbang “died after an impactful earthly ministry of 44 years having enrolled at the Trinity College, Umuahia, Abia State in 1962.”
He said the late Mbang was the only person to be both a patriarch and prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria.
Taiwo said Mbang “will be sorely missed by his beloved church, Methodist Church to which he gave his spiritual, intellectual and servant-leadership for more than two decades.”
According to him, Mbang had the unique and special privilege of being “accorded the status of ‘Spiritual Father of Akwa Ibom State.”