Samuel Ajayi Crowther is ordained the first African Bishop of the Anglican Church. Kidnapped along with his family at age 12 in Osogun, Oyo Empire (Nigeria) by Fulani slave raiders, he was sold to Portuguese traders, but rescued from a slave ship by a British Navy anti-slavery patrol. Resettled in Sierra Leone, he impressed Anglican missionaries with his scholastic brilliance, and was sent to London to further his studies. He will be ordained a priest in 1843 after doing missionary work himself. While translating the Bible into Yoruba, he will earn the degree of Doctor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, and will be invited to meet England's Queen Victoria. He will read the Lord’s Prayer to her in Yoruba, a language she finds “melodious.”