Catholic Bishops of Nigeria elect new leadership at Abuja plenary

by Catholic Trends

February 24, 2026

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The Catholic Bishops of Nigeria have elected new principal officers to lead the Conference during their First Plenary Assembly held at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in Abuja.

In a statement titled “CBCN Elect New Leaders”, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria announced that, “The Catholic Bisbops of Nigeria, at the First Plenary holding at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja, have on 24 February, 2026, elected new officers to pilot the affairs of the Conference.”

Most Rev. Matthew Man’oso Ndagoso, the Archbishop of Kaduna, was elected President. Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, the Archbishop of Lagos, becomes the Vice President of the episcopal conference. With Most Rev. Peter Odetoyinbo, the Bishop of Abeokuta, serving as Secretary. Most Rev. Peter Chukwu, the Bishop of Abakaliki, will serve as Assistant Secretary.

The statement further noted that , “There were other Bishops elected to oversee the various directorates, departments and units of the Catholic Secretariat and CBCN Agencies.”

According to the statement, “The new officers shall be officially presented at the closing ceremony of the plenary on Wednesday 25 February, 2026.”

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The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Solemnity

Book of Deuteronomy 8,2-3.14b-16a.

Moses said to the people:
"Remember... how for forty years now the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments.
He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.
"Do not forget the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery;
who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock
and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers."

Psalms 147,12-13.14-15.19-20.

Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise... your God, O Zion.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has blessed your children within you.

He has granted peace in your borders;
with the best of wheat he fills you.
He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia

First Letter to the Corinthians 10,16-17.

Brothers and sisters:
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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6,51-58.

Jesus said to the crowds:
"I am... the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?"
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
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