The OAIC was founded in 1978 at a meeting of AIC leaders in Cairo hosted by Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The Leader has come to Egypt to learn more about the Coptic Church, and to be visit the historic site associated both with Jesus fight to Egypt as an infant, and with the early Christian Church. The leaders agreed on the need to establish a body which would act as a forum for the sharing of common ideas and co concerns among AICs. This led to the formation of the Organization of African Independent Churches. The organization operated till 1982 when 22 countries gathered in Nairobi for the second general assembly where the constitution was adopted and the international headquarters shifted from Egypt to Nairobi in Kenya. In 198 the OAIC was registered in Kenya under the society‘s act, after a change of name requested by the Kenyan Government from African Independent Churches to African Instituted Churches. NIGERIA REGION The OAIC Nigeria was inaugurated on the 3rd June 1986 in Ibadan, Oyo State at an impressive meeting of 30 Heads Indigenous Churches hosted by Pastor J. B. Orogun, then President of the Christ Apostolic Church. The inauguration was at instance of the International headquarters which created various Africa Chapters and Religions – thus Nigeria Region. Other chapters that emerged as Regions include: Ghana – Anglo-phone West Africa, Nairobi – East Africa, South Africa, Northern Africa and Madagascar.
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