Francis Arinze
Catholic cardinal from Nigeria · Nigeria · On the map · Religious Figures · Born 1932 · age 94
Francis Arinze is a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as the Prefect of the Secretariat for Non-Christians from 1984 to 2002 and Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 2002 to 2008.
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, If you don't understand a person's religion, you haven't even begun. And if you are not able to listen, you are only able to talk, then you are still on your own.
You are a Protestant and you read the Scripture. Did you read where Christ said “Unless a person be baptized of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven”?
It becomes a great concern to a country if a high number of its young people, or of its professionals like graduates or medical personnel, want to go to another country.
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He previously served as the Archbishop of Onitsha from 1967 to 1985 and as the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria from 1979 to 1984. Arinze is the current Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni since 2005 and was one of the principal advisors to Pope John Paul II and was considered papabile at the 2005 Papal conclave. According to Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Arinze is the only surviving council father among the few who went from Nigeria to the Second Vatican Council.
