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Archbishop John Kwao Amuzu Aggey 1965.07.06 – 1972.03.13 Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie 1973.04.13 – 2012.05.25 ( Cardinal in 2003) Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins since 2012.05.25
The latest Archbishop to be installed at the cathedral is Alfred Adewale Martins, who is incumbent since 2012. [ 5 ] By year-end 2016, the archdiocese counted 3,274,000 baptized out of a total population of 12,276,000 which corresponds to 26.7% of the total.
Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle (201, at left) served as Apostolic Delegate to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish–American War. Archbishop John Murphy Farley (218) was created a cardinal in 1911. Archbishop William Henry O'Connell (244) was the first cardinal to be archbishop of Boston.
343,675 Catholics (2021) in Archdiocese of Lagos (1860 as the Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey) with 184 parishes under Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins (2012). Notable people [ edit ]
Later appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans [45] [46] Reverend William A. Irwin – Served with the Army in England, died in service [47] Reverend Alfred W. Johnson – Served with the Army in England, died in service [48] Reverend Francis J. McManus – Served with the Navy on the USS Canopus (AS-9) in the Philippines. Died ...
[19] [20] In 1950, he oversaw construction of St. Martin de Porres Hospital in Mobile, which was the first hospital in Alabama where African American doctors could work alongside their white colleagues. [19] He also persuaded a local hospital to become the first one in Alabama to accept pregnant African American women. [20]
The Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory. or diocese, of the Catholic Church that encompasses the northern 39 counties of Alabama in the United States. [1] It was erected on December 9, 1969, with territory from what is now the Archdiocese of Mobile .
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