Joseph Edra Ukpo (born 6 June 1937) was Archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calabar
The Archdiocese of Calabar (Latin ''Archidioecesis Calabarensis'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Its archepiscopal see is Calabar, Cross River State. The Archbishop of Calabar is metr ...
from his appointment in 2003,
[ succeeding , until his retirement in 2013.]Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogoja
The Diocese of Ogoja ( la, Ogogiaën(sis)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nigeria. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Calabar, yet still d ...
, which is a suffragan diocese of the archdiocese of Calabar.
Ukpo was born at Okpoma in the Cross River State. He is the brother of Nigerian politician Anthony Ukpo
Stephen Anthony Ukpo (16 July 1947 – 6 September 2021) was Minister of Information and Culture, and then Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria, from August 1986 until July 1988 during the military administration of General Ibrahim Babangida.
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1937 births
Living people
People from Cross River State
Roman Catholic archbishops of Calabar
Roman Catholic bishops of Ogoja
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