The pope of the Catholic church, Pope Francis, has waded into an ethnic crisis in Ahiara, Imo State , Nigeria, whose bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke, appointed by Benedict XVI in 2012, is unwanted by members and priests of the diocese.


The reason for this crisis is that some members of the church rejected Okpaleke, an Igbo from Anambra State, because he is not an Igbo man from Mbaise.


To resolving the issue, the pope on Wednesday, received a delegation from the Diocese of Ahiara, accompanied by Archbishop of Abuja and apostolic administrator of Ahiara, Cardinal John O. Onaiyekan, and many others.


Pope Francis while speaking of the inadmissibility of the situation in Ahiara, said he was entrusting the Diocese of Ahiara to the motherly care of Mary.


It was Benedict XVI who appointed Monsignor Okpaleke in 2012, only to meet a storm of opposition by the leaders and congregation; he was not even allowed to hold mass in the church.


Since Okpaleke’s appointment in 2012, the priests and Catholic faithful from Mbaise had insisted they wanted a Bishop of Mbaise extraction.



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