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At over 80 years old, Archbishop Margaret Benson-Idahosa remains a force in modern day evangelism of the Pentecostal movement in Nigeria and beyond.
Born on July 29, 1943 to a royal family in Benin Kingdom of Edo State, she was married to the late charismatic Archbishop Benson Idahosa. A consummate preacher and author, she succeeded her late husband as the Archbishop of the Church of God Mission International, thus, making her the first African female Archbishop. She is also the Chancellor of Benson Idahosa University.
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Since the passing of her husband on March 12, 1998, Archbishop Margaret Idahosa has steered the affairs of the church with over 4,000 branches across the country as well as Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia.
Archbishop Margaret Benson-Idahosa is a woman of God with jeart of gold. Her love for the less-privileged and abandoned babies led her to establish an orphanage home known as My Sister’s Place, where such babies are cared for, with regular provision of food, clothes, healthcare, etc. Through her foundation, she provides grants for widows to set up small businesses to maintain their families.
In her commitment to nurturing leaders, Archbishop Benson-Idahosa established the International Leadership Resource Institute (ILRI) to teach leadership ethics and principles to pastors and other categories of leaders and church workers. She is the President-General, Christian Women Fellowship International (CWFI), a non-denominational body that is committed to teaching women how to discover their true potentials, to be good mothers, wives, and instruments for end-time evangelism. Branches of this body are in North America, Europe, and Africa. A 10,000-seat multi-purpose facility named the Restoration Centre was built for this purpose.
The centre is also committed to rehabilitating and empowering destitute young women with skills to help them become useful to themselves and society. In furtherance to the ideals of the founder, Archbishop Benson-Idahosa has ensured that the church is dedicated to the extension of health delivery service to mankind, hence it established, in 1989, the Faith Mediplex Group of Hospitals in Benin.
The hospital, like all her legacies has since grown into a multi-speciality Teaching Hospital complex with multiple training programmes and extension hospitals in Abuja and Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The group of hospitals provides medicare for both church and non-church members with little or no charges at all, especially for the indigent.
In recognition of her contributions to society, using evangelism and the gospel as tools, ArchbishopMargaretBenson-Idahosa is winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award 2026.
