Breaking: Catholic Pope Leo XIV Invites President Tinubu

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV has invited President Bola Tinubu to his inauguration scheduled for Sunday, May 18. The presidency explained that the president will depart Abuja for Rome, the capital of Italy, on Saturday, May 17.

According to the statement signed by Tinubu’s special adviser on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the Nigerian president will be attending the solemn mass, which will mark the beginning of the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV invites Bola Tinubu for his inauguration
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The new Pope is the 267th Bishop of Rome and the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The invitation was said to have been sent to President Tinubu through Cardinal Pietro Parolin, where Pope Leo XIV personally requested the physical presence of the Nigerian president.

Pope Leo XIV explained that Tinubu’s physical presence was important because the event was a great relevance for the Catholic Church and the world, which has been afflicted by many tensions and conflicts.

The Pope’s invitation letter to Tinubu reportedly reads in part:

“Your great nation is particularly dear to me as I worked in the Apostolic Nunciature in Lagos during the 1980s.”

According to the presidency, President Tinubu will be joined on the trip by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and the Archbishop of Owerri and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Ugorji.

Others on the entourage list are the Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, Alfred Martins of Lagos, and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah.

Pope Leo XIV, who was formerly known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, will be officially installed in the respected office of the Pope at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday, May 18. President Tinubu was scheduled to return to Nigeria on Tuesday, May 20.

Source: TheTalk.NG

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