Okpaleke Archives - Freedom Online ...express yourself Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:37:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://freedomonline.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/cropped-icon-32x32.png Okpaleke Archives - Freedom Online 32 32 Pope Francis accepts Okpaleke’s resignation, appoints Ugorji as replacement https://freedomonline.com.ng/pope-francis-accepts-okpalekes-resignation-appoints-ugorji-replacement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pope-francis-accepts-okpalekes-resignation-appoints-ugorji-replacement https://freedomonline.com.ng/pope-francis-accepts-okpalekes-resignation-appoints-ugorji-replacement/#respond Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:37:28 +0000 http://freedomonline.com.ng/?p=65657 The Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has accepted the resignation of Bishop Peter Okpaleke whose appointment and consecration to head Ahiara, Mbaise Catholic Diocese in 2012, sparked off years of protest. A latter dated February 19, 2018, in which the Vatican accepted Okpaleke’s resignation, also stated that he had been replaced by the Bishop of Umuahia […]

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]]> https://freedomonline.com.ng/pope-francis-accepts-okpalekes-resignation-appoints-ugorji-replacement/feed/ 0 Bishop Okpaleke whom Pope Francis fiercely defended resigns https://freedomonline.com.ng/bishop-okpaleke-pope-francis-fiercely-defended-resigns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bishop-okpaleke-pope-francis-fiercely-defended-resigns https://freedomonline.com.ng/bishop-okpaleke-pope-francis-fiercely-defended-resigns/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:40:40 +0000 http://freedomonline.com.ng/?p=65612 A Nigerian bishop whom Pope Francis had fiercely defended has resigned after a five-year, sometimes violent, standoff with rebel priests and faithful who rejected him as an ethnic outsider, the Vatican said on Monday. The case of the Vatican versus the people of the diocese of Ahiara in South-East Nigeria had become a rare battle […]

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