Clergy from a conservative grouping of the Anglican Church are meeting this week in Nigeria's capital Abuja to choose a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.
The UK's Sarah Mullally will officially be installed as the leader of the world's Anglican communion at a lavish ceremony later this month but her appointment has divided opinion in Nigeria, and elsewhere.
Many conservative Christians believe that only men should be consecrated as bishops.
The Vining Memorial Church Cathedral in Nigeria's main city Lagos was full of women in gold, green and purple headwraps known as gele, and men resplendent in white flowing robes known as agbadas for its weekly highlight, the Sunday service.
Some of the hymns and liturgy were the same as those sung by Anglicans around the world, but there were also differences, like the upbeat worship music that had the congregation dancing in the pews.
