Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu has been appointed as the Catholic Archbishop of Jos and Metropolitan of Jos Ecclesiastical Province.
This was announced by Pope Francis in a statement yesterday, Monday, January 6, 2020.
According to the statement, the canonical installation in Jos will be on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
Born June 7, 1959 in Rafin-Pa, Tudu Uku, in the Diocese of Makurdi, Matthew Ishaya Audu attended the St. James Minor Seminary in Keffi, in present-day Nasarawa State. He completed his philosophical and theological studies at the St. Augustine Major Seminary in Jos and was ordained a priest on June 23, 1984, for the Makurdi clergy.
Audu later studied Moral Theology in Rome at the Institute of Moral Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University, Licentiate (1989-91) and for the Degree in Moral Theology at the Alfonsianum, Rome (1997-99).
He was previously Deputy Parish Priest in Keffi (1984-86)’ Deputy Parish Priest in Lafia (1986-88); Parish Priest of Nasarawa (1988-89); Professor of Moral Theology and Vice-Rector of the Major Seminary of S. Thomas Aquinas, Makurdi (1992-97). From June to December 2000, with the departure of the Rector of the Seminary for a sabbatical year, he was Acting Rector of the Major Seminary of S. Thomas Aquinas, Makurdi.
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Elected first Bishop of Lafia on December 5, 2000, Audu received episcopal ordination on March 31, 2001.
The 60 years old Archbishop-Elect is currently the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Lafia, Nasarawa State.
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