{"id":8206,"date":"2017-01-17T16:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8206"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:13:56","slug":"ekandem-his-eminance-dominic-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekandem-his-eminance-dominic-cardinal\/","title":{"rendered":"EKANDEM, (His Eminance), Dominic Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>clergyman, born June 23, 1917, Obio, Ibiono, Itu, Akwa Ibom State; Education: St Joseph&#8217;s Anua, 1924-32, Christ the King&#8217;s Col lege, Onitsha, 1933-37, St Paul&#8217;s Senior Seminary Okpala, Ngor, Owerri, Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, 1941-47; Ordain ed Priest, 1947; appointed Assistant Priest, St Anne&#8217;s Parish, Ifuho and St Andrew&#8217;s Parish, Afaha Obong, later Rector, Queen of Apostles Seminary, Afaha Obong; Consecrated Auxilliary Bishop of Calabar, 1954; appointed First Bishop of Ikot Ekpene, 1963 and First West African to be raised to the status of Bishop (Roman Catholic Church); appointed First Nigerian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Paul VI, April 1977; Apostolic Administrator, Port Harcourt Diocese, 1970-73; President, Episcopal Con ference of Nigeria, 1973-79; President, Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa (ECAWA), 1977; member. Sacred College of the Cardinals; member, Sacred Congregation for the Evangelisation of the People; Ecclesiastical Superior of Abuja; Cardinal Priest of Titular Church of St Marcellus; member. Pioneer Total Abstinence Association; member, Vatican Secretariat for Non-Believers; Na tional Honours: conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), 1965; Com mander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR), 1982; Foreign Honour: conferred with Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), 1960; Honorary Degree: Awarded honorary Doctor of Divinity (Hon. D.D), 1954; Publications: Shepherd Among Shepherds, 1979 and Annual Addresses to Conferences, 1973-78; Hobbies: reading, drama; Official address: Cardinal&#8217;s House, Library Avenue, PO Box 70. Ikok Ekpene. Akwa Ibom State; Telephone: Ikot Ekpene 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[319],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8206","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-clergy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}