Nigerian cardinal visiting LA: ‘Pope Leo is making our dreams come true’

Cardinal Peter Ebere Okpaleke is the bishop of one of Nigeria’s smallest Catholic dioceses, but the job comes with some long-distance travel.

Last year, the job took him to Rome, where he was part of the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.

Last month, it took him to South LA, where the 63-year-old got a rousing welcome from his fellow countrymen at St. Eugene Church, the only parish in Southern California to offer Sunday Mass in Igbo, the dominant language of the heavily Catholic southeastern region of Nigeria.

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