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Idowu A Akinloye is a self-supporting priest in the Anglican Church, both in Nigeria and South Africa, and a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is also a senior lecturer and deputy coordinator of postgraduate programmes at the College of Law, Osun State University, Nigeria. He holds honours degrees in Law and Theology from Delta State University and Archbishop Vining College of Theology, respectively, and an LLM degree from Obafemi Awolowo University. He read for his PhD in Law at Rhodes University. His research interests include church law, law and religion, and African customary law. He has published articles in peer-reviewed international journals including the Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Journal of Church and State, and Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, and he contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2020).