Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke was installed April 29 as the bishop of the new Ekwulobia Diocese, after having been rejected in the Ahiara Diocese by priests and parishioners in a prolonged crisis ...

The Diocese of Ahiara is one of the most Catholic in the nation, with about 400,000 Catholics out of a total population of 500,000. It also has numerous vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

The ugly experience has, however, been put behind as the Holy Father erected the new Diocese of Ekwulobia by splitting the Diocese of Awka in the Metropolitan See of Onitsha Ecclesiastical ...

Yet this Nigerian, from the diocese of Ekwulobia, is in fact one of the 21 prelates Francis will welcome into the College of Cardinals Aug. 26, during his eighth consistory. Okpeleke spoke with ...

It was so serious that Okpaleke was never allowed to enter Ahiara Diocese due to the protests. He would later resign in 2018 but was surprisingly appointed the inaugural bishop of the Ekwulobia ...

NIGERIAN Cardinal Peter Okpaleke, the Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia in Anambra State ... the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Oyo, disclosed that Cardinal Okpaleke, 62, and other cardinals ...

Pope Francis has established the Diocese of Ekwulobia, Anambra State and named Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke as its first Ordinary. Bishop Okpaleke was the Bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Ahiara ...

The Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese, the Most Reverend Peter Okpalaeke, has been appointed a Cardinal by His Holiness, Pope Francis. A statement by the Chancellor of the Diocese, Reverend ...

A member of the Handmaids of the Child Jesus in Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Ekwulobia, Sister Nkiru was involved in heavy shooting when assailants attacked a vehicle she was traveling in with ...

THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi and the governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo have congratulated the Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese of Anambra ...