This memorial website was created in the memory of our beloved Bishop Boniface Dalieh who was born on 9th December 1933 and passed away on 26th April 2014, 80 years of age.Bishop Dalieh was born in Yederobo-Maryland, Liberia, of pagan parents on December 9, 1933. Although his parents were pagans, his brother, Joseph C. Dalieh, who was a staunch Methodist and with whom he lived to be educated, introduced him to the Methodist denomination. Although Boniface was never baptized, he was always considered a Methodist.In 1947, after reading about King Henry VIII of England who broke away from the Catholic Church and formed the Anglican denomination, Boniface asked his brother if the story was true. His brother explained in more detailed about the Church of England and the division created by King Henry VIII. It was at this moment that our founder, by the grace of God, decided to become a Catholic. He was baptized on 6 May 1949 by Father Martin P. White, who was a priest of the Society of African Missions (SMA).Fr. Michael Cummings, SMA, who was then in charge of the St. Francis Boarding School, where Boniface attended, took the young men in the boarding school with him for hospital and prison visitations and sick calls. Father Cummings would speak to the boys about the Catholic priesthood and tell them that even Liberians could become priests, too. He would always ask them to pray for God’s will and grace about becoming priests in order that they could work with and for their own people of Liberia. Bishop Dalieh was among the group of boys who adhered to Father Cummings’ advice and founded a prayer group and future priests club.In January 1953, young Dalieh was sent to St. Theresa’s Minor Seminary, Oke Are, Ibadan, Nigeria. After a successful completion of the seminary course in there, he entered Sts. Peter and Paul Major Seminary, Bodija, Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1958. On 11 July 1965, he was ordained a priest, by His Excellency Nicholas Grimely, SMA. In 1974, he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Cape Palmas and was consecrated by Archbishop Thomas Brosniham, CSSP, of Freetown, Sierra Leone.