Rev. Admire Cleeve was born and grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa.  fter his high school education, he was awarded a scholarship by the Sierra Leone Government to study Physical Education in the Scottish School for Physical Education in Glasgow, Scotland (SSPE). Admire left the college at the end of the second academic year, unsure as to whether physical Education was his calling.
       Later, the Sierra Leone Government again awarded a scholarship to Admire to study Accounting, Business and Management in the Professional Division of the Polytechnic of North London. He graduated as an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA)- A British professional degree in Administration, Accounting and Management.  William was also admitted as a member of the British Institute of Management (MBIM)       Cleeve returned to Sierra Leone and was appointed Assistant Accountant by BP Gas, and later as Exchange Control Manager and Company Secretary of a major British Company in Sierra Leone - UAC of Sierra Leone Ltd."
   It was during this period that Admire was called to the ministry.  He studied part-time and after three and a half years, graduated with a postgraduate certificate in Pastoral Studies from the Theological Hall and Church Training Centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
      He was ordained in the Anglican Cathedral of St. George in Freetown, Sierra Leone twenty five years ago. He served in the Diocesan Centre and in three parishes in Freetown before he left Sierra Leone the second time to serve in the Isle of Man as Curate and three and a half years later in the Diocese of Oxford, Church of England, as Team Vicar for six years and Vicar for five, accordingly.        
      During his period in the Diocese of Oxford in the Church of England, he obtained a masters degree in applied theology from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and is presently studying for his doctorate degree Th. D. 
     He was secretary of the Interfaith Group in Reading and adviser to the Area Bishop of Reading in Interfaith issues.  Admire was also a member of Rotary International.     
      Admire and his family immigrated to the United States in 2003 and Admire was called to the Parish of St. Paul as Rector,  in the Diocese of Massachusetts later that year.  Admire served St. Paul's for two years and nine months, before relocating to Columbus Ohio.     Thanks to Bishop Kenneth Price and the Commission for Congregational life in the Diocese of Southern Ohio (COCL), who in March 2006 gave Admire permission to start a new church in the old St. Paul's building, now St. Cyprian of Carthage Episcopal Church. The launch of the church took place in June of 2006.
     Admire is married and now has four children after their eldest son died in 2005.   Three are now adults and the last is twelve years old.  His wife Cecilia, a former nurse, teacher and community worker, now works as a Case Manager/Clinician at North Central Mental Health Services in downtown Columbus.