Sunday, March 04, 2007

Church of Nigeria to Consecrate 20 New Bishops This Sunday
Source:
Church of Nigeria News
March 2, 2007
Peter Onwubuariri, Abuja

ACTIVITIES HEIGHTEN IN BUILD UP TO UNPRECEDENTED CONSECRATION SERVICE

Thursday, March 1, 2006 Abuja- The mission agenda of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) to make every Anglican an evangelist and double its size will receive a firm boost on Sunday when 20 Bishops will be consecrated at one single service.

Nineteen of them are being sent to missionary areas- places considered as largely ‘unchurched’-, while one of them goes to occupy the vacant See of the diocese of Ife, following the retirement in 2006 of Bishop G. B. Oloniyo.

By Sunday, when the Primate, the Most Rev Peter Akinola completes the marathon consecration service, there would have been 117 dioceses under the primatial oversight of the Archbishop of the Province of Nigeria. A breakdown of the 117 shows: 114 geographic dioceses in the country, one non-geographic nomadic mission, a mission to Congo and CANA- the Convocation of Anglicans in North America.

The assignment for the newly consecrated Bishops in the new dioceses is centered on evangelism.
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