CONSECRATION OF FIFTEEN BISHOPS AND INAUGURATION OF FOURTEEN NEWLY CREATED DIOCESES IN THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA, ANGLICAN COMMUNION
The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, The Most Rev’d Henry C. Ndukuba, will lead other Archbishops and Bishops to consecrate fifteen newly elected bishops on Sunday, November 9, 2025, at a service to be held at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life-camp in Abuja. Recall that the House of Bishop, arising from its Episcopal Synod on Thursday, 18th September 2025 at the Cathedral Church of Emmanuel, Okesha, Ado-Ekiti, in Ekiti Diocese, elected new bishops to fill one of its vacant Sees (Diocese of Irele/Eseodo) and fourteen of the recently created fifteen dioceses. The following Servants of God were duly Elected at the Episcopal Synod: Diocese of Irele/Ese-Odo – Venerable Samuel Ogunmiluyi Diocese of Ekiti South – Venerable Francis Bankole Diocese of Kalabari – Venerable Boma Briggs Diocese of Lagos South West – Venerable Dr. Adewole Ajayi Diocese of Omoku – Venerable Richard N. Okpara Diocese of Ozoro – Venerable Dr. Benjamin Idume Missionary Diocese of Idanre – Ve...