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OUR HISTORY
The Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) is a Pentecostal church in the Aladura movement, which was founded by Samuel Oshoffa on 29 September 1947 in Porto-Novo, Benin. It has spread from West Africa to countries in Europe, such as Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom, but a number of its parishes are located in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos and Ogun State.
Oshoffa was a former carpenter born in Dahomey (now Benin) in 1909. Raised as a Methodist, he had a divine revelation while lost in a forest on 23 May 1947 during a solar eclipse. (The nearest recorded solar eclipse visible in Africa occurred on May 20, not May 23, of that year.) He felt called to pray, to heal the sick, and to raise the dead. He founded his church in September 1947. Having appointed himself Prophet, Reverend, Pastor, and Founder, he occupied the highest office of his movement. The hegemony he exercised on doctrine and discipline issues made succession difficult when he died in 1985 in Lagos, Nigeria.
The CCC was recognized and authorized by the Republic of Dahomey in 1965. From 1976, the church launched an evangelistic campaign in that country, a former colony of French West Africa, which had become independent in 1960. From the late 1990s, the CCC church has utilized the internet as a means of evangelization, thus allowing the many existing branches of the church within the African diaspora in such nations as the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France and the United States, to maintain contact with each other and with Nigeria, the nation in which the CCC is currently most popular.
Celestial Church of Christ , Christ Glory Parish, Manchester, United Kingdom is an offspring of our mother parish and we do adhere to all the commandments and tenets as stated below.
COMMANDMENTS AND TENETS
All true Celestians are expected to keep all the commandments of God as written in Exodus 20.
THE CREED
I believe in God the father Almighty
Maker of heaven and earth
And in Jesus Christ His only son our lord
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost
Born of the virgin Mary
Suffered under Pontius Pilate
Was crucified, dead and buried
He descended into hell
The third day he rose again from the dead
He ascended into heaven
And sitteth on the right hand of God the father almighty
From thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead
I believe in the Holy Ghost
The Celestial Church of Christ
The communion of saints
The forgiveness of sins
The resurrection of the body
And the life everlasting. Amen