AFRICA/NIGERIA – REV. JOHN CHIJIOKE IWE APPOINTED RECTOR OF INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN OWERRI

Thursday, 27 November 2003

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National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed

Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has, on 15 November, appointed rector of the “Seat of Wisdom Major Seminary” in Owerri in Nigeria, Reverend Father John Chijioke Iwe, of the clergy of Okigwe. The new rector was born on 16 November 1954 and ordained a priest on 14 August 1982. Ha studied in Rome at the Pontifical Urban University and the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Gregorian University. Since 2001 he has been vice-rector of the “Seat of Wisdom Major Seminary” in Owerri. (S.L.) (Fides Service 26/11/2003; lines 6; words 85)