Francis Arinze is a Nigerian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 2002 to 2008 and before that led the Secretariat for Non-Christians from 1984 to 2002.
Anambra State is a Nigerian state located in the South-eastern region of the country. The state was created on 27 August 1991. Anambra state is bounded by Delta State to the west, Imo State and Rivers State to the south, Enugu State to the east and Kogi State to the north. The state's capital is Awka, while the state’s largest city is Onitsha which is regarded as one of the largest metropolis in Africa. Nnewi is the second largest commercial and industrial city in Anambra State, and also a known automobile hub within Nigeria and Africa.
Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs), each administered by a local government council consisting of a chairman, who is the chief executive, and other elected members, who are referred to as councillors. Each LGA is further subdivided into a minimum of ten and a maximum of twenty wards. A ward is administered by a councillor, who reports directly to the LGA chairman. The councillors fall under the legislative arm of the Local Government, the third tier of government in Nigeria, below the state governments and the federal government.
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, OCSO was an Igbo Nigerian priest of the Catholic Church who worked in the Archdiocese of Onitsha and later became a Trappist monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England.
Christopher Uchefuna Okeke, also known as Uche Okeke, was an illustrator, painter, sculptor, and teacher. He was an art and aesthetic theorist, seminal to Nigerian modernism.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Onitsha in Anambra State, Nigeria.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Issele-Uku is a diocese located in the city of Issele-Uku, Delta State in the ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. It lies on the west bank of the Niger River between Benin City to the west and Onitsha to the east. The diocese comprises six local government areas in the northern portion of Delta State. The Archdiocese of Onitsha borders it on the east and the Archdiocese of Benin City borders it on the west. The Diocese of Uromi is to its north and the Diocese of Warri borders it on the south.
Railway stations in Nigeria include:
John Cross Anyogu was a Nigerian clergyman who, on 9 June 1957, became the first member of his Igbo community to be consecrated a Roman Catholic priest and later a Roman Catholic bishop. He was also the first Igbo to be ordained a priest in 1930 and the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Enugu which was created in 1963, the year of his installation. Through his efforts Enugu became a very important Catholic mission centre overseeing several thousand Christians in and around the town. His parish has the largest concentration of Catholics in Nigeria, second only to Owerri parish.
The Missionary Society of St. Paul of Nigeria is a Catholic religious congregation based in Nigeria and serving parishes in Africa, North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. It was founded by Cardinal Dominic Ekandem in 1976.
Akpujiogu is an Igbo town in the Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria. It borders the towns of Ajalli, Ufuma, Nawfija, Ogboji, and Ndiowu.
Helen Uche Ibezim is a Nigerian educationist and an author who has published several books which include Your Gift is your Power, Beyond the Heartbeat (novel) and The Ultimate Price & other plays.
Chibuzo Emmanuel Obimma, known as Ebube Muonso, is a Nigerian Catholic leader in Anambra State. He is a parish priest in Dunukofia and the founder and head of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry.
Charles Heerey B.A., C.S.Sp. (1890–1967) was an Irish-born priest of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans), who served as a bishop in Nigeria. Born in Castlerahan, Clonkeefey, Co. Cavan. He was educated by the Holy Ghost fathers in Blackrock College, he prefected in Rockwell College, and studied in St. Mary's Rathmines and Holy Ghost Missionary College, Kimmage Manor, Dublin, he graduated with a BA from UCD. He was ordained a priest in Dublin in 1921. Following ordination he moved to Nigeria in 1922.
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