Moses Orimolade Tunolase

Moses Orimolade Tunolase was the founder of the Cherubim & Seraphim movement, the Nigerian-founded, white-garment Christian tradition to which every church of the C&S Unification belongs.

Early life

According to the church's own published history, he was born in 1879 as Orimolade Okejebu, of the Tunolase branch of the Oshodi Dynasty of Ikare-Akoko, in what is now Ondo State, Nigeria [1]. He took the name Moses at his Christian baptism [1].

Ministry

Before 1924 he travelled as an itinerant evangelist through the areas now known as Kogi, Kwara, Oyo, and Osun States, arriving in Lagos in 1924 [1]. In June 1925 came his encounter with Christiana Abiodun Akinsowon, out of which grew a prayer and revival fellowship led by the two of them [1].

The movement

On 9 September 1925 the movement was founded, first bearing the name Seraphim; Cherubim was added to the name before the end of that year [1]. In 1929 an internal dispute divided the movement into two groups, one led by Orimolade and the other by Abiodun, and further divisions followed [1]. The many organized C&S church bodies that exist today trace themselves to this beginning, and the Unification, registered on the movement's 74th anniversary in 1999, works to draw them back together [1].

Legacy

His name is carried today by constituent churches of the Unification, by the church's Moses Orimolade University project at Omu-Aran, Kwara State [2], and by the movement's centenary, marked on 9 September 2025 [1].

References

1. Cherubim & Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria, "About Us", candsunification.org/about/. Accessed 10 September 2026.
2. Seraphim News, Moses Orimolade University launch coverage, 24 September 2025.

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