9
12
2003
African heads of church
Attention: An article on the ascendancy of African Anglican Archbishop Akinola in The Atlantic.
The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about: Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria.
I was reminded of a killingly funny earlier Atlantic piece, a short story by humorist Christopher Buckley called “We Have a Pope!”
I saw from Monsignor Murphy’s—I must say CIA-quality—dossiers on the leading foreign cardinals that the front-runner was this Kojo Cardinal Arooba of Nigeria, an extremely impressive fellow, I’ll be the first to admit, the Colin Powell of the College of Cardinals.
