Bennett C I Okoro is an
Anglican bishop
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in
Nigeria
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.
He was born on the 24th of November 1949 in Imo State. Okoro was educated at Union Secondary School,
Enugu, the American College and Seminary in
Manhattan
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, New York and the Lincoln University. He was ordained in 1976. He was chaplain to the Federal Teachers College,
Lokoja then Vicar of Christ Church,
Lokoja. He began working in the
Diocese of Orlu in 1984. He was appointed
Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral
Nkwerre. In 1988, he became Archdeacon of
Etiti. He was elected Bishop of
Okigwe South in 1993, and was later
translated
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to
Orlu. He became
Archbishop of Owerri in 2002, serving until 2013.
Okoro was consecrated as the pioneer Bishop of Okigwe South on 16 January 1994 at St. Michael's Cathedral
Aba.
He retired as Bishop of Orlu in 2019.
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1949 births
Living people
Anglican bishops of Orlu
21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria
People from Imo State
Anglican archbishops of Owerri
Anglican bishops of Okigwe South
Church of Nigeria archdeacons
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