{"id":166676,"date":"2019-11-10T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166676"},"modified":"2019-11-10T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:31:20","slug":"pope-francis-announces-retirement-of-archbishop-onaiyekan-appoints-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166676","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis announces retirement of Archbishop Onaiyekan, appoints replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pope-Francis-announces-retirement-of-Archbishop-Onaiyekan-appoints-replacement.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on Saturday officially announced the retirement of His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan as the Archbishop of Abuja Dioceses.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known through a telephone interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), by Mr Josef Ishu, department of Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to the letter from Rome, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama as the new Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Ishu, however, noted that the date for the installation of the new Archbishop would be communicated in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Kaigama was the Archbishop of Jos from 2000 to 2019, when he became first Archbishop Coadjutor and then Archbishop of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking also in a telephone interview with His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, who confirmed his retirement, noted that it was long over due.<\/p>\n<p>Onaiyekan said that it was time for transition and time for a new leader to come and continue where he had stopped.<\/p>\n<p>John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan was born 29 January, 1944; he is a Nigerian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>He was Archbishop of Abuja from 1994 to 2019 and was made a Cardinal in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric has served as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, President of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Nigeria and Bishop of Ilorin.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on Saturday officially announced the retirement of His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan as the Archbishop of Abuja Dioceses. This was made known through a telephone interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), by Mr Josef Ishu, department of Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja. According to the letter from Rome, Pope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[2658,7348],"class_list":["post-166676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-a","tag-john-onaiyekan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}