May 9, 2007 / 10:27 am. Nigerian Primate Peter Akinola rejected requests from both Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and proceeded with the May ...

Some Nigerian Anglicans say their new leader is strongly opposed to the ordination of women and homosexuals—as is retiring archbishop Peter Akinola, whom Okoh will succeed in March 2010. “I am ...

Former primate of the Anglican Church, Peter Akinola who was abducted by gunmen in Abeokuta on Christmas eve, and was rescued later by the Policemen from Ogun Command yesterday recounted his ...

How Archbishop Peter Akinola's rejection of liberal "sins" and the ordination of gay clergy could ... As primate to 17 million Nigerian Anglicans and head of an African bishops’ group ...

Peter Jasper Akinola is (not necessarily in this order) a Nigerian, a Christian, and an Anglican. He is an imposing figure, tall and graying, who has been married for thirty-four years and has six ...

Peter Jasper Akinola was born in Abeokuta on Janauary 27 1944. He was Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) between 2000 and 2010.

Akinola, however, has proven himself in the past to be a brave man. He took a strong and important stance against Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s bid for an extraconstitutional third term.

Nigeria’s Anglican archbishop, Peter Akinola, has declared that homosexuality is ”an aberration unknown even in animal relationships,” a statement so… Skip to main content Share on Facebook ...

The Anglican primate of Nigeria reacts angrily to a call for reconciliation in the dispute over the Americans' elevation of a gay priest to bishop. African Archbishop Lashes Out at U.S. Episcopal ...