Augustine Obiora Akubeze

Most Reverend
Augustine Obiora Akubeze
Archbishop
Church Roman Catholic
Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City
Orders
Ordination 1987
Consecration 2006
Personal details
Birth name Augustine Obiora Akubeze
Born Kaduna, Nigeria
Nationality Nigeria
Denomination Roman Catholic
Styles of
Augustine Obiora Akubeze
Reference style His Excellency
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Archbishop

On 18 March 2011 Vatican Information Service reported that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Bishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Uromi, Nigeria, as metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City, Nigeria (area 13,678, population 1,761,701, Catholics 123,350, priests 69, religious 146), effective on 28 March 2011. The archbishop-elect was born in Kaduna, Nigeria in 1956, he was ordained a priest in 1987 and consecrated a bishop in 2006.

Sources


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/8/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.