Dr. Cyril Okorocha is a Fellow of the University of Edinburgh,
Center for the study of Christianity in Non-Western World; a Crowther
Fellow of the University of Birmingham, Selly Oak Colleges; former Head
of Religious Studies, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) , Zaria and
Coordinator of Higher education in religion for ABU related Colleges of
education in Northern Nigeria; trainer of Lecturers in teaching and
learning Christianity in Higher education, ABU Zaria and its related
Colleges; Visiting Lecturer and staff Trainer for East Africa
Association of Theological Educators; Visiting lecturer/Adjunct
Professor School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary,
Pasadena, USA; Founding Associate and visiting lecturer of Oxford
Center for Mission Studies, Oxford UK; Founding member and West African
Secretary, International Fellowship of Evangelical Theologians; Founder
and Director, Institute For Theology and Mission in African, Owerri
and Enugu, Nigeria; Member International Association for Mission
Studies; Founding Member, British and Irish Association for Mission
Studies(BIAMS); Organiser of the G-CODE 2000 movement that has
revolutionalized the Anglican Communion.
For the past 13 years by divine permission and vocation, he has
been the 3rd Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Owerri. One of His
academic mentors, Prof. Andrew Walls, a renowned World Missiologist,
Historian and Social Anthropologist, describes Dr. Cyril as
“A meticulous Scholar of an extraordinary intellect, integrity
and giftedness, very articulate and yet endowed with a down to earth
and thoroughly humane pastoral heart which seems to exude with the
loving presence of the spirit of the Living God which touches everyone
around him with a graciousness which can only be described as coming
from his Lord, Jesus Christ whom Cyril always says is everything to
him”.
He is a rare gift of God to His Church and the world, spanning
into two centuries. Dr. Okorocha is at once a social Anthropologist, a
missiologist, a philosopher and an extraordinary Biblical theologian, a
preacher, exegete and bible expositor; counselor, pastor and a highly
gifted and prolific writer.
Dr. Okorocha is married to Dr. (Mrs) Eunice ( who is by personal choice
and merit, a member of the 8 persons Canterbury Review Team, the Apex
body which forms the fulcrum on which the world wide Anglican Communion
revolves, and of which Her Majesty, the Queen of England is already a
member).
For seven years (1991 – 1998), he served as a special emissary to the
Archbishop of Canterbury and Director for Missions and Evangelism and
Theological Education, as well as the Coordinator of the World Wide
Decade of Evangelism, for the Global Anglican Communion, based in
London with his amiable lady wife, Dr. (Mrs) Eunice I. Okorocha, and
their four children.
