Michael Fape is an
Anglican
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archbishop
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in
Nigeria
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: he is the current
Bishop of Remo and
Archbishop
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of the
Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos.
Fape was educated at the
University of Ibadan
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and ordained in 1984. He was made a
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in
Ibadan Diocese in 1995 and an Archdeacon in 1997. He became a bishop in 2003; and an archbishop in 2016. He was enthroned as Bishop of Remo in 2004.
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Living people
Anglican bishops of Remo
Anglican archbishops of Lagos
21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria
21st-century Anglican archbishops
University of Ibadan alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Church of Nigeria archdeacons
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