Leo Hale Taylor

Life Taylor was born in Minnesota to parents of English and Irish background. Educated at St Joseph's College,

Wilton, Cork city, he was ordained a priest on June 23, 1914. Taylor was among the first group of trainee missionaries to attend SMA's seminary in Cork, Ireland. He was also an avid cyclist and frequently traveled to out stations by road or forest path to practice the sacrament of confirmation or minister to a dying baptized Catholic.

To progress the mission of the church in Lagos and to close a gap in the need for elementary school teachers, Taylor established a teachers training school, Blessed Murumba's College at Ile-Ife in 1944. In 1943, he founded the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Sisters at Ibonwon, an institution that practices chastity and vows to poverty.

In 1951, Taylor accepted a request from Dominican fathers to manage a new parish in Yaba. The fathers came from St Alberts Province in Chicago. The Parish is now called St Dominic's Parish, Yaba.

He died in 1965.