Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S

Richard Burke (born 19 February 1949 is the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Warri, Nigeria^[1]. He was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. He was ordained a priest on 18 May 1975 for St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions and was appointed the coadjutor bishop for the Diocese of Warri on 6 December, 1995. He was ordained a bishop on 6 January, 1996 succeeded to the position of ordinary of the diocese on 3 March, 1997 at the age of 48. The Principal Consecrator was Pope John Paul II; his Principal Co-Consecrators were Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re and Jorge María Mejía. On 24th December 2007 Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Burke as the new Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria.