Victor Adibe Chikwe

Victor Adibe Chikwe (* June 24, 1938 in Eziala Ihitte, Ezinihitte - Mbaise, Imo, Nigeria, † 16 September 2010) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Ahiara.

Life

Victor Chikwe attended from 1947 to 1953, the St. Rose's Catholic School in Ihitte and from 1954 to 1956, the St. Peter Claver Junior Seminary, Okpala. In 1960 he entered the seminary Bigard Memorial Seminary in Enugu a Major and studied philosophy and theology. Chikwe received on 17 April 1966, the priestly ordination in Emekuku, Owerri, and was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Owerri. From 1976 to 1979 he completed his doctoral studies in canon law at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. 1979/80, he completed a postgraduate diploma of education at the University of London.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 18 November 1987 the first bishop of the newly established Diocese Ahiara. John Paul II gave to him on January 6, 1988 even the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops Eduardo Martínez Somalo Curia and Giovanni Battista Re.

Chikwe was a member of the Episcopal Conference in Nigeria. He was president of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa ( AECAWA ) the Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar ( SECEAM ).

Victor Chikwe Adibe died in the Episcopate.