Type: | Archbishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Augustine Obiora Akubeze | |
Archbishop of Benin City | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Benin City |
See: | Benin City |
Appointed: | 18 March 2011 |
Term Start: | 28 April 2011 |
Predecessor: | Richard Anthony Burke |
Ordination: | 3 October 1987 |
Consecration: | 25 February 2006 |
Consecrated By: | Anthony Olubunmi Okogie |
Birth Name: | Augustine Obiora Akubeze |
Birth Date: | 25 August 1956 |
Birth Place: | Kaduna, Nigeria |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Uromi (2005-11) Vice-President of the Nigerian Episcopal Conference (2012-18)President of Catholic bishops conference of Nigeria (2018-2022) |
Bishop Name: | Augustine Obiora Akubeze |
Dipstyle: | His Excellency |
Offstyle: | Your Excellency |
Relstyle: | Archbishop |
Augustine Obiora Akubeze is a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church and serves as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City, as of 2011.
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, effective on 28 March 2011. He was born in Kaduna, Nigeria in 1956; he was ordained a priest in 1987 and consecrated a bishop in 2006.[1]