consecrated_by consecration birth_place title article_title type birth_date ordination name church
j. abiodun adetiloye 1992 plateau state archbishop of jos , bishop of jos benjamin kwashi
 archbishop 1955 1982 benjamin kwashi church of nigeria
benjamin kwashi

benjamin `` ben '' argak kwashi -lrb- born plateau state , 1955 -rrb- is a nigerian anglican archbishop .
he is married to gloria and they have six children , one of them is also a priest .
they have 54 orphans living with them in jos , northern nigeria .
he was born in amper village in plateau state , in a christian family .
his father was a respected teacher .
kwashi at first wanted to follow a military career but he felt a religious calling in 1976 , and decided to follow a religious life .
he was ordained an anglican priest in 1982 .
he went to serve in several rural and urban parishes .
he also would be rector of a theological college .
in 1987 , his church and vicariate were totally burned during muslim riots .
he became the first bishop of the newly created anglican diocese of jos in 1992 .
in 2008 , he was consecrated archbishop of jos province in the church of nigeria .
he has been a leading name in the anglican realignment , attending gafcon ii , held in nairobi , kenya , in 21 -- 26 october 2013 .
in november 2014 , after a bombing in potiskum killed forty muslim schoolchildren , kwashi released a statement strongly criticizing the idea that boko haram violence was the result of poverty .
kwashi said it was important that the issues of poverty , corruption , and extremist violence should not be conflated and confused .
