Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo is the

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Bishop of Oyo diocese. He was born on 13 of July 1961. He was ordained a

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by the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Oyo The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oyo ( la, Oyoën(sis)) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. It still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelizati ...

Julius Babatunde Adelakun Most Rev Julius Babatunde Adelakun (born 1 November 1934) is the Emeritus Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oyo. He retired from active service in 2009 and was succeeded by Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo is the Catho ...

(now Emeritus) on 4 January 1986. He was appointed the Catholic Bishop of Oyo by

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after the retirement of

on 14 August 2007.

Early life

Emmanuel Badejo was born into a Catholic family on 13 July 1961. After his secondary education in the Minor Seminary he studied philosophy at the Regional Major Seminary of Ss. Peter and Paul

Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me ...

Oyo state Oyo State is an inland state in southwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State, to the east by Osun ...

. After completing his studies he received a Bachelor of Theology degree from the Pontifical Urban University in

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Italy.

Church leader

Emmanuel Badejo was the President of the Association of Nigerian Priests and Religious in Rome (1993-1994) He was appointed to work in the Department of Communication at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in Lagos(1996-2003). During this period, he founded and was the First National Chaplain of the Catholic Artistes and Entertainers Association of Nigeria, (Film/Video) CAEAN from 2005-2006. on August 14, 2007 Badejo was elected bishop of the Diocese of Oyo. He received his Episcopal ordination on 20 October 2007, becoming styled Most Reverend Dr Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo. He publicly assumed office on 20 November 2009 after the retirement of

Appointment to the Vatican Dicastery

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appointed Bishop Badejo a member of the Vatican Dicastery on Friday December 3rd 2021. The Dicastery of Communications is the administrative department of the Holy See through which the Pope directs affairs that pertain to Social Communications in the Roman Catholic Church.

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