{"id":31146,"date":"2021-01-18T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=31146"},"modified":"2021-01-18T19:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:01:21","slug":"rev-madu-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=31146","title":{"rendered":"Rev Madu Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The immediate past Secretary General of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja, a priest from Owerri Archdiocese, Msgr. Ralph Madu, has passed on to glory after a brief illness.<br>Born in Lagos on September 28, 1955, the erstwhile Secretary General of the Catholic Secretariat was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church on July 9, 1983, for the Archdiocese of Owerri. A PhD graduate of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, Fr. Madu also studied at Fordham University, New York where he bagged M. Ed (Admin and Supervision).<br>Msgr. 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