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On 18 March 2011 Vatican Information Service reported that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Bishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Uromi Nigeria as metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City Nigeria (area 13678 population 1761701 Catholics 123350 priests 69 religious 146) effective on 28 March 2011. The archbishop-elect was born in Kaduna Nigeria in 1956 he was ordained a priest in 1987 and consecrated a bishop in 2006.