Dominic Ignatius Ekandem (1917–1995), was a Roman Catholic cardinal and was the first West African Catholic Bishop.
A native of Cross River State, Ekandem attended several Catholic seminaries before he became a priest. He was ordained on 7 December 1947 and became the first priest from the old Calabar province. In April 1976 he was installed a cardinal.
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Francis Arinze was ordained a priest at the age of 25 and became bishop just seven years later when he was 32. He was named cardinal in 1985, when he was 52, making him one of the highest-ranking African clerics at the time.
BACKGROUND AND EARLY LIFE OF FRANCIS ARINZE
Francis Arinze was born November 1, 1932, to an animist family of the Ibo tribe in Eziowelle, Nigeria. He wasn’t baptized until he was nine years old when he converted to Catholicism.
Father Cyprian Michael Tansi, one of Nigeria’s first native priests, was an important influence on him. Cyprian was the one who baptized him, and Arinze certified Cyprian’s beatification in 1998.
CURRENT STATUS OF FRANCIS ARINZE
In 1984, Francis Arinze was named by John Paul II to head the Vatican office which handles relations with all other religions except for Judaism. For most of this time, he focused on relations between Catholicism and Islam. Every year he sent a special message to Muslims to commemorate fasting during Ramadan. Since 2002, Francis Arinze has led the Vatican office dealing with methods of divine worship.
THEOLOGY OF FRANCIS ARINZE
Francis Arinze is known as a theological conservative, something common to Catholics from the southern hemisphere. Arinze has been heavily involved with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Inquisition, and supports efforts to maintain strict doctrinal integrity in the Catholic church.
He has said of gay men with ponytails and earrings that he would like to “wash their heads with holy water.”
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