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A poster announcing the inauguration of the Year of Prayer to prepare for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year in the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara in Nigeria. Credit: Catholic Diocese of Ahiara

Catholic Diocese in Nigeria Launches Year of Prayer to Prepare for 2025 Jubilee Year

Jul 7, 2024

Bishop Simeon Okezuo Nwobi of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Ahiara has announced the inauguration of the Year of Prayer in his Episcopal See to prepare for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year.

Bishop Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, the newly installed Local Ordinary of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Ahiara. Credit: Nigeria Catholic Network

“I stand before you today not as a man elevated, but as a servant”: Nigerian Catholic Bishop at Installation

Jun 21, 2024

Bishop Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, the newly installed Local Ordinary of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Ahiara, has called upon the people of God to consider him their servant.

Auxiliary Bishop Appointed Local Ordinary of Nigeria’s Ahiara Catholic Diocese

May 3, 2024

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, who has been serving as Auxiliary Bishop of the Apostolic Administrator “sede vacante” of Nigeria’s Ahiara Diocese as the Local Ordinary of the same Episcopal See.

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