Togo: Chronology

Some Togolese people who were in Europe and North America for school and work joined the Church. Many later returned to Togo.

Dieudonné Attiogbe, who was baptized in England, contacted the Africa Area Office and was sent the names and addresses of 39 Togolese members who had been baptized abroad. He wrote letters to all of them, and a small group of them began to hold informal church services.

A group was organized in Lomé with Agnon Ameri Didier as presiding elder.

DeMoine A. and Joyce Findlay, senior missionaries from the Côte d’Ivoire Abidjan Mission, arrived in Lomé.

The Lomé Branch was organized with Dieudonné Attiogbe as president.

The Church received official recognition in Togo.

Membership in Togo increased fivefold, to nearly 600 members.

The Tokoin Branch, the second branch in Togo, was organized.

Area and local Church leaders toured the mission and met with Yawovi Agboyibo, prime minister of Togo.

The Lomé Togo District was created with Comlan Amegandji as president.

Sisters Rosemary M. Wixom, Primary General President, and Silvia H. Allred, First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, visited the Saints in Lomé and attended the groundbreaking for a new meetinghouse in Togo.

The young men and young women of the Lomé Togo District traveled to the Accra Ghana Temple to perform baptisms for the dead.

LDS Charities began distributing wheelchairs to 1,400 people in Togo.

In conjunction with the All-Africa Mormon Helping Hands Day, members of the Lomé district participated in a project to clean the grounds at Télévision Togolaise.

The Lomé Togo Stake was organized with Kcodgoh Laurent Edgeweblime as stake president.

The Lomé Togo Tokoin Stake, the second stake in Togo, was organized with Mathieu Gbedevi as president.