{"id":18358,"date":"2017-03-30T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18358"},"modified":"2017-05-30T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T11:15:35","slug":"udofia-rev-samuel-joshua","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/udofia-rev-samuel-joshua\/","title":{"rendered":"UDOFIA, Rev. Samuel Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clergyman, National Presidant. Lutheran Church of Nigeria; LGA: Nsit Ibom; Born: Dec. 9, 1944; Pa: Joshua Inim Udofia (d) and Arit J. Udofia (d); Married to Mrs Mfon S. Udotia; Children: Ekaette ( 18), Jdaresit (17), Grace (15) Liza (13), Joshua (10), Ama-Owo (7), Samuel lor. (I); Education: Lutheran Bible Institute, \\\\<ot Ibritarn, J 960-61, Cert. in Theology; Lutheran 111eological Seminary, Obot Idim, 1964-71, GCE and Seminary Diploma; Concordia Theological Seminary, U.S.A 1975-78, M. Div., M.S.T.; Career and Work History: Church Evangelist, Lutheran Church, Ikot Ekpene, 1962-64; Hospital Pastor, Lutheran Hospital, Eket, 1969-73; Church District Pastor, Calabar University Teaching Hospital, Calabar, 1973 -75; College TeacherlPrincipal, Lutheran Sem inary, Obot Idim, 1978-89 Synod Vice Pres., Lutheran Church, National Headquarters 1981-93; National President. Lutheran Church Headquarters, Obot Idim, I 994-present; Career Related Responsibilities: Studies Commiss ioner, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Geneva, 1984-90; Counci llor, Lutheran World Federation, Geneva, 1990-97; Project Committee Chairman, LWF, Geneva, 1995-97; General Secretary, LUCQA, West Africa Region, I 995-present; Special WO\"k Related Achievements: First Nigerian to serve on the Lutheran World Federation Governing Council; First African to serve as the Chairman of the Lutheran World Federation's Project Comm ittee; Publications: Numerous articles; several sermons. Professional Memberships: Life Mem., Nigerian Bible Society; Religions Affiliation: Lutheran; Hobby: Travelling; Rev. Udofia has travelled extensive ly. Office: The Lutheran Church ofNigeria, P. O. Box49, Obot Idim, Ibesikpo Asutan, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Tel: (085) 200505\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[319],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18358","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-clergy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18358"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}