Buhari Felicitates with Black Bishop

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed joy at the Queen of England’s approval of a Nigerian Bishop for the Church of England.
The Nigerian, Mr Woyin Karowei Dorgu, got the approval on Tuesday as the 13th Bishop of Woolwich.
The President described the development as gladdening and reassuring.
Reports say Buhari had sent a congratulatory message to Dorgu through his Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, today.
The message reads in part: “Your appointment is gladdening and reassuring being the first black man to be so appointed in 20 years. This is an attestation to the fact that Nigerians in the Diaspora are excelling in their various fields of human endeavours, thus projecting a good image for the country abroad.”
The President hoped and prayed that Dorgu’s appointment as a Bishop would serve as a catalyst for others in the region as well as enhance Nigeria’s spiritual rejuvenation.
“You have worked really hard and earned the respect of the Church of England to be so appointed. With you on this, we are sure you will continue to contribute your quota to the success of the Church,” he said, as he expressed his willingness to receive Dorgu in Nigeria.
Fifty-eight-year-old Bishop Dorgu will be consecrated at Southwark Cathedral on March 17, 2017.
He is a General Practitioner who studied at the London Bible College for his BA, and studied for his ordination at Oak Hill Theological College from 1993 to 1995. He also holds an MA in missiology.
Bishop Dorgu was Curate at St Mark’s Tollington in London Diocese from 1995 to 1998, before moving to be Curate at Upper Holloway in the same diocese until 2000.
From 2000 to 2012, he was Team Vicar at Upper Holloway before becoming Vicar in 2012 and from 2016 he has been Prebendary at St Paul’s Cathedral.
He is married to Mosun, a doctor. She is a consultant child psychiatrist who works for the NHS and they have 2 grown-up children.
Dorgu was born and brought up in Nigeria, and ordained in the UK. Woolwich, in south-east London, has a significant Nigerian population, and many of them worship in black-majority Pentecostal churches rather than the C of E.
At a press conference at Southwark Cathedral, Dorgu said one of his priorities as bishop would be to celebrate the racial diversity of the Woolwich area.
Known to some of his congregation as Brother K, Dorgu trained as a medical doctor in Lagos before being ordained. He was brought up in a Christian family but said as a teenager he rebelled against the gospel and left the church.
After encountering Christian students at university, he decided to “accept Jesus as my personal saviour and Lord in my early 20s”. He travelled to the UK in 1987 and was ordained as a priest in 1996.