Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie

Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie (Created Cardinal 2003)

Served from: April 13, 1973 to May 25, 2012

Born: June 16, 1936

Cardinal (then Archbishop) Anthony Olubunmi Okogie was installed as the Archbishop of Lagos on June 17, 1973. He took over the administration and leadership of the Archdiocese of Lagos. As the Archbishop of the Archdiocese, he received on behalf of the Institute ﬁnancial grants from foreign funding agencies with which the Institute built a new Generalate in Ikeja on a land that our founder acquired for the Institute through the help of Fr. Flatteny.

Archbishop Okogie personally supervised the construction of the new Generalate building from 1983 to 1984 now known as the ‘Main House’ because there is at present a new Generalate building called Domus Fidei. On July 30, 1985, under the leadership of Rev. Mother Clare Idahosa and with the support of Archbishop A. O. Okogie the then Archbishop of Lagos, the Administrative seat of the Institute was moved from Ibonwon to Ikeja, Lagos. He was very instrumental to this movement and encouraged the sisters to go for excellence and be self-reliant. Anthony Cardinal Okogie will also be remembered amongst other impacts for this legacy he left for us the EHJ Sisters by constructing 163 new graves of 326 spaces that is having two graves in one space. These were constructed at the site of the EHJ Sisters cemetery in Ibonwon. An initiative he had with Archbishop Alaba Job.

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