Pope Leo appoints two Nigerians to key Vatican roles

Pope Leo has appointed 2 Nigerians to cardinal positions successful the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization.

According to Fides News Agency, the appointments were announced alongside those of 3 different African Catholic leaders.

Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Lagos was named a subordinate of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), 1 of the Vatican’s main departments liable for missionary activities and the constitution of caller section Churches.

Also appointed arsenic a consultor of the aforesaid Dicastery is Father Wenceslaus C. Madu, C.M.F., Vice-Chancellor of the Claretian University of Nigeria, Nekede.

Other African appointees arsenic members of the Dicastery are Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, OFM Cap, Archbishop of Kinshasa successful the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, Cameroon.

Archbishop François Sylla of Conakry, Guinea, was besides appointed arsenic a consultor.

The appointments are expected to fortify African practice successful the Vatican’s evangelization ngo and governance of caller peculiar Churches.

Pope Leo appoints 2 Nigerians to cardinal Vatican roles