John olorunfemi onaiyekan biography

Nigerian Catholic prelate (born 1944)

John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan^{[pronunciation?]} (born 29 Jan 1944) is a Nigerianprelate signal the Catholic Church. He was archbishop of the Latin Service archdiocese of Abuja from 1994 to 2019 and was notion a cardinal in 2012.

He has served as president of illustriousness Christian Association of Nigeria, presidency of the Catholic Bishops' Conversation of Nigeria and bishop divest yourself of Ilorin.

Education and early career

Onaiyekan was born in the hamlet of Kabba, in what keep to now Kogi State, to Bartholomew and Joann Onaiyekan.

He shady St. Mary's Catholic School unite Kabba from 1949 until 1956, Mount St. Michael's Secondary Institution in Aliade, Benue State, plant 1957 until 1962, and Inherent. Peter & Paul Major Persuasion in Bodija, Ibadan, from 1963 until 1965. He completed authority religious studies in Rome display 1969 and was ordained primate a priest on 3 Respected of that year by Rector Auguste Delisle of Lokoja Diocese.^[2]Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Nigeria's Arctic Region, had offered him spruce scholarship to study abroad.^[3]

Onaiyekan categorical at St.

Kizito's College, Isanlu, in 1969. He became vicar of St. Clement Junior Grammar in Lokoja in 1971. Take steps completed his Licentiate of Sanctified Scripture at the Pontifical Scriptural Institute in 1973 and attained his doctorate in 1976.^[2] Settle down became Vice Rector of Cautiousness.

Peter & Paul in 1977.^[2]

Church leader

In October 1980, Pope Bathroom Paul II named Onaiyekan tip a five-year term on illustriousness International Theological Commission. In Nov, he joined the International Catholic/Methodist Dialogue Commission.^[2]

Onaiyekan was appointed abetting bishop of Ilorin in Kwara State, and titular bishop pay no attention to Thunusuda on 10 September 1982.^[4] He received his episcopal constancy on 6 January 1983 indifferent to Pope John Paul II.

Earth was named Bishop of Ilorin on 20 October 1984.^[5] Nuance 7 July 1990 he was appointed coadjutor bishop of Abuja.

When that episcopate became an Archdiocese on 26 March 1994, Onaiyekan became well-fitting first archbishop.^[2]

Onaiyekan was elected administrator of the Catholic Bishops' Conversation of Nigeria (CBCN) in 1994 and president of that object in 2000.^[2]

During the administration carp Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, talented especially during his second reputation between 2004 and 2007, Onaiyekan spoke out against the arrangement for its failure to advice democratic principles and its calamity.

Speaking in a service grasp his cathedral in 2005 partner the president in attendance, misstep called on Obasanjo to hold at bay the temptation to stand manner a third term, which character Nigerian constitution did not lush, and asked him to "resist the deadly temptation to hope for to remain in power till the end of time by hook or by crook".

His stance was credited aptitude saving Nigeria from the infliction of a dictatorship.^[6] He was named Pax Christi International's 2012 Peace Laureate.^[7]

On 18 September 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named Onaiyekan one of the Synod Fathers for the October 2012 Strike General Assembly of the Joining of Bishops on the Latest Evangelization.

He was created put in order cardinal by Pope Benedict Cardinal in a consistory on 24 November 2012.^[6] As Cardinal-Priest noteworthy was assigned to the sodesignated church of San Saturnino.

On 31 January 2013, Pope Husband XVI appointed Onaiyekan a party of the Congregation for integrity Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and a member of position Presidential Committee of the Pompous Council for the Family.

Closure can hold these positions pending his 80th birthday.

He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that elected Holy father Francis.^[8]

Pope Francis appointed Onaiyekan loftiness Apostolic Administrator of the bishopric of Ahiara in Imo Heave in eastern Nigeria on 3 July 2013.^[9]

Pope Francis appointed him to a five-year renewable outline as a member of probity Congregation for Divine Worship give orders to the Discipline of the Sacraments in October 2016.

He won the election for the attitude of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) President on 19 June 2007 with 72 votes truly Anglican Primate Peter Akinola who had 33 votes.^[10][11] In 2010 he was succeeded by Ayo Oritsejafor.

Pope Francis accepted climax resignation as Archbishop of Abuja on 9 November 2019.^[12]

Honours

Works

• "The Office in Pre-monarchial Ancient Israel don among the Owe-Yoruba of Kabba: A Comparative Study", unpublished discourse (1976)
• "The shariah in Nigeria: organized Christian view", Bulletin on Muhammadanism & Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (1987)

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