Buhari congratulates Idowu-Fearon over his new appointment

Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has
congratulated Nigeria’s Most Reverend Josiah Idowu-
Fearon, on his appointment as the Secretary-General of
the Consultative Council of the Anglican Communion
Worldwide.

In a letter delivered to Dr. Idowu-Fearon in London
on Friday on the occasion of his commissioning into the
new post, President Buhari said that all Nigerians were
proud of his elevation into one of the most important
offices in the world of faith.

The President also applauded Bishop Idowu-Fearon’s
emergence, after a highly competitive selection process,
as the first African to occupy the office.
“With your intellect, with great pastoral zeal and with
compassion, you have over the years risen above
intolerance and narrow sectarianism, and built inter-
faith and ecumenical bridges of understanding among your
countrymen.

“We salute your special gift of clearly articulating the
essence and beauty of the many bonds that bind us.

“You have lived up to your calling and attained your self-
stated goals of creating a culture of respect for
differences, a culture of accepting human beings for what
they are, and playing down the things that divide them.

“Our nation and the world will certainly be a better place
if all men of God approach pastoral work with the same
patience, compassion and fidelity to higher principles that
you have exhibited in the various offices you have held.

“It is our prayer that, in your new position, God uses
you to counsel and move the entire worldwide Anglican
Communion in the direction in which you have taken the
Anglican Church in Nigeria—towards an intimate
knowledge of others, and sincere fellowship with
everyone.

“This is the imperative of the moment: it is what the
world direly needs today,“wrote President Buhari in the
congratulatory letter.

Buhari wished Bishop Idowu-Fearon, God’s guidance
and success at his new post in the Anglican Communion
Office in London.

The letter was delivered to the Most Reverend Idowu-
Fearon by a personal emissary of the President, Mallam
Adamu Adamu.