Ebenezer Tamunoteghe Dimieari was an eminent Nigerian Anglican priest in the mid twentieth century.Nigeria University Opening Today. The Times (London, England), Monday, Oct 10, 1960; pg. 10; Issue 54898
He was educated at St Andrew's College Oyo and St John's College, Durham; and was ordained in 1924.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967/68 p334: Oxford, OUP, 1929 He was Archdeacon of the Niger from 1939 to 1946; of Bonny from 1946 to 1948; and Bishop of the Niger Delta from 1949 until 1960. He was consecrated on 29 June 1949, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral (London, UK), to serve as assistant bishop to Cecil Patterson, Bishop on the Niger.Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (2019) p. 70 (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 26 June 2019) He became first diocesan bishop of the Niger Delta on that diocese's erection, 1 January 1952.
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