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Nigeria: Pope Appoints New Apostolic Administrator for Ahiara Diocese
This Day, 20 February 2018
After nearly a decade of protracted crisis over the leadership of the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara, Pope Francis I Monday appointed the Bishop of Umuahia Diocese, Most Rev Lucius… Read more »
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Nigeria: Pope Bows to Ahiara Diocese' Rebels, Bishop Okpaleke Quits
Vanguard, 19 February 2018
Pope Francis has bowed to the rebels of Ahiara Diocese in Imo state and abandoned Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke, after priests and laymen rejected his appointment for six years. Read more »
Nigerian Bishop Who Was Defended by Pope Francis Resigns
The Vatican has announced that the Pope has accepted the resignation of Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke of the diocese of Ahiara, who was appointed in December 2012. He was prevented by local clergy from taking up his role there because priests and people in the diocese insisted that their bishop must be from their clan.
InFocus
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Pope Francis has blasted a group of Nigerian priests who rejected the papal appointment of their bishop to the diocese. The Pope has given priests in the Nigerian Diocese of Ahiara ... Read more »
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A priest has described the rejection of a Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Francis by members of a diocese in Imo, south-eastern Nigeria as a disgrace. Ahiara Catholic ... Read more »
