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Augustine Ndubueze Echema (born 28 December 1958 in Ohuhu Nsulu) has been a Catholic prelate and the bishop of Aba Diocese since 2019. He is a professor of Liturgy at the Catholic Institute of West Africa (CIWA), Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Education
He attended St. Peter Claver Minor Seminary, Okpala from 1972 to1977 for his secondary education where he became interested in priesthood. He studied philosophy from 1978 to 1982 and theology from 1982 to 1986 at Bigard Memorial Seminary in Ikot Ekpene.
Priestly career
Echema was ordained a Catholic priest on 16 August 1986 for the Owerri Diocese. In 1989, three years after his ordination proceeded to Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt where he studied for his doctorate degree in Theology majoring in liturgy. He finished in 1994. He spent his early career at St. Peter Claver Minor Seminary, Okpala as Formator 1986 to 1988 and was parish priest of St. Mark Parish in Umuneke Ngor for one year (1988 – 1989). From 1994 to 1995, Echema was in Frankfurt, Germany for studies. He served as parish priest of Joseph in Schwalbach, in the German Diocese of Limburg from 1996 to 1998. Following his return to Nigeria, he became deputy chaplain of CIWA and was appointed a professor of liturgy at the institution.
On 28 December 2019, Pope Francis appointed Echema bishop of Aba Diocese which had been without a local Ordinary for some period.
References
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- Daftar keuskupan di Nigeria
- Augustine Echema
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Aba
- Abia State
