Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of the
Catholic Diocese of Oyo State to the Vatican Dicastery for Communications.
The appointment was disclosed in a statement by Rev. Fr.
John Irekiigbe, the Director of Communications, Oyo Diocese, on Friday.
Recall that the Dicastery of Communications is the
administrative department of the Holy See (The Vatican State) through which
Pope Francis directs affairs that pertain to Social Communications in the Roman
Catholic Church.
Badejo, a communications scholar, has been the Bishop
President for CEPACS, which is the communications committee of Bishops for the
Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) since 2015.
Badejo served as the Communications Secretary and later on,
Director, to the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria between 1996 and 2003.
The Bishop is presently the Vice-Chairman, Social
Communications Department of the Regional Episcopal Conferences of West Africa
(RECOWA).
Reacting to his new appointment, Badejo told NAN, “I pray
and trust that this assignment of service will help the communication
apostolate of the Catholic Church in Nigeria and Africa to relate better with
the Holy Father’s pastoral initiatives and better expose the pastoral
activities of the Church in Nigeria and in Africa to the whole world.”
Other members of the Dicastery are Reverend Sr. Nathalie
Becquart, X.M.C.J, the Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops and Archbishop
Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia of the Ukrainians.
Also, Archbishop Jorge Eduardo Lozano of San Juan de Cuyo,
the Secretary-General of the Latin American Episcopal Council (C.E.L.A.M.) and
Cardinal Maura Gambetti, O.F.M, the archpriest of the Papal Basilica of Saint
Peter in the Vatican.
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