Cardinal John Onaiyekan.POPE Benedict XVI, yesterday, in Rome, Italy, announced the appointment of Archbishop John Onaiyekan of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja as a cardinal, along side five other Cardinals; His Beatitude Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars (India); Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez, Archbishop of Bogotá (Colombia) and Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila (Philippines).
Cardinal John Onaiyekan was made priest on August 3rd 1969 and a Bishop on January 3rd 1983.
Before now, the Catholic Church in Nigeria had produced three cardinals and they are the late Dominic Cardinal Ekandem, Francis Cardinal Arinze and Anthony Cardinal Okogie.
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