Francis arinze biography
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Arinze, Francis*
Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, was born on November 1, in Eziowelle, a city of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria. At the age of fifteen, he began his secondary studies at the All Hallowa (All Saints) Seminary of Nuewi, studies which he concluded in at Enugu. For the following two years he taught at the same seminary until , when he took up philosophy studies at Bigard Memorial Seminary at Enugu. In he began to take courses in theology at the Pontifical Urban University. Only three years later he was ordained to the priesthood during a ceremony which took place at the church of the Pontifical Urban University in Rome on November 23,
From , he was professor of liturgy and also taught logic and basic philosophy at Bigard Memorial Seminary at Enugu. He was then appointed regional secretary for Catholic education for the eastern part of his country. When transferred to London, he took
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Arinze, Francis
The highest-ranking African in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Nigerian-born Cardinal Francis Arinze (born ) has inspired speculation that he might one day become the first non-European pope in modern times.
Arinze fryst vatten known as a conservative on many issues. His positions on matters of Catholic doctrine have been marked bygd an uncompromising defense of tradition, especially in connection with the hot-button social issues of homosexuality, priestly celibacy, and abortion. Yet he saw enough of war to emerge as a committed pacifist, and, coming from a country split down the mittpunkt between Christianity and Islam, he became an important advocate for interfaith dialogue and for the idea that communication and cooperation among representatives of different faiths might help to defuse religious extremism. Many of Arinze's ideas closely resembled those of the pope who brought him to Rome and nurtured his career: John Paul II.
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date: 20 February
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- Dictionary of African Biography
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Nigerian Roman Catholic cardinal, was born on 1 November to Arinze Nwankwu (later baptized Joseph) and Bernadette Ekwoanya in the rural town of Eziowelle in southeastern Nigeria. Of humble beginnings, he was in his early years raised in the Igbo traditional religious system until he was nine, when he was baptized into the Catholic church by Father Michael Iwene Tansi, the first and only Nigerian, to date, to be canonized by the church. As a teacher and parish priest, Father Tansi could not but notice that the young Arinze was humble, hardworking, and intell