Moses Orimolade Tunolase: The Founder of The Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim Church (Mount-Zion)
The Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim is a Christian Trinitarian church established in Nigeria by Saint Moses Orimolade Tunolase on September 9, 1925. Like John Wesley, Moses Orimolade did not aim to set up a separate church, but found that the missionary churches of the time
did not welcome his approach to the faith. The church originated as an association of prayer groups or "bands" of up to 20-30 members. This loose structure made it extremely easy for different groups to separate from the main body, and the ESOC&S is thus notable for the numerous groups, many of them small, which sprang from it but remain related to it. There are five principal streams:
* Eternal Sacred Order of the Seraphim and Cherubim
* Cherubim and Seraphim Society
* Praying Band
* Cherubim and Seraphim Movement
* Holy Order of Cherubim and Seraphim
The ESOC&S is an Aladura church and one of the principal members of the Organisation of African Instituted Churches. The tenets of the ESOC&S are Biblical, and the worship is broadly similar to that of the Pentecostals. The church continues to grow and ESOC&S churches are established in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Present membership is estimated at about over 10 million worldwide.
