Bishop Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II was born in Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa on 4 May 1967. He emigrated to the United States at a young age and attended college while working to support himself in his new country. In 1997, he was united in holy wedlock at the historic Maryland Church of God in Christ to the former Andrea Antoinette Myers, a preacher’s daughter. He began working at the Maryland Church as a Deacon. Then in September 2004, he received his ministerial license to preach the Gospel. He made a personal pilgrimage to Memphis, Tennessee, the spiritual home of the Church of God In Christ. There, he had a transformational encounter at the Prayer Room in the Mason Temple where after much tarrying, weeping, and supplication to the Lord he received the Holy Ghost with evidence of Glossolalia as the Spirit of God gave him utterance.
In August of 2006, he was ordained as an Elder by the late Bishop David Washington Spann, Sr. of the Greater MD First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). In May of 2008, he founded the IMPACT PENTECOSTAL FELLOWSHIP COGIC with twenty (20) members and located to Essex, Maryland. Four years later, the Lord favored the Impact Church to acquire a new home in Edgemere, Maryland. In 2009, the Bishop Joel Harley Lyles, Jr. appointed him as the Jurisdictional Secretary. In 2013, he began focused mission work in Kenya and one year later, he formally organized the Impact Pentecostal Fellowship - Kenya, East Africa. Working with his wife Lady Andrea and committed ministry partners, they have completed several life-giving, life-saving, and life-changing projects that have positively impacted lives and families across Kenya. Then in 2016, he was elected as Chairman of the Greater MD First Jurisdiction Council of Pastors and Elders.
The Presiding Bishop, General Board, and General Assembly of the Church of God in Christ appointed, approved, and ratified his elevation to the episcopacy. He was unanimously elected by his peers as vice president of the Episcopal Academy Class of 2019 and consecrated to the sacred office of Bishop by Presiding Bishop Charles Edward Blake, Sr. on 10 November 2019 at the Holy Convocation in Saint Louis, Missouri. Thereafter, he was appointed as the pioneer Prelate of the Kenya Third Impact Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ, also known in Kenya as the Impact Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Kenya, COGIC.
Bishop Omo-Osagie holds several earned academic degrees including BS (cum laude) in Social Sciences from Coppin State University; MA in Political Science from Bowling Green State University (Ohio); MA in Theology from the St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore; another MA from the Notre Dame College (Ohio) and a PhD in History from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, he is a distinguished full professor and teaches political science and history at the Baltimore City Community College, Maryland. A prolific writer, public intellectual, and sought-after commentator and analyst on public affairs issues, Bishop Omo-Osagie has authored and published several books, articles, and commentaries.
His works have appeared in numerous national and international publications including The Western Journal of Black Studies, Southern Historian: A Journal of Southern History, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Examiner, Baltimore Afro American Newspaper, Philadelphia Tribune, and Newswatch magazine among many others. His acclaimed books, While in the Wilderness: Essays on Empowerment, Perseverance, and Hope were published by Testimony Publications in 2018 and Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore: The Role of African Americans, 1930s to 1990s, a pioneering research work published in 2012 by the University Press of America. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated and is married to the elegant Lady Andrea. They have two beautiful and graceful daughters, Shalom Chidimma and Keturah Osarieme.
