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Most Worshipful Brother O.C.J. Okocha OFR, SAN
Grand Master – Grand Lodge of Nigeria
Profile of the Grand Master
Full Name: Onueze Chukwujinka JOE Okocha
Date of Birth: 29th June 1953
Place of Origin: Rukpakwolusi town, Rumokoro, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria
Profession: Legal Practitioner and Notary Public
Office Address: Manuchim Chambers Building (3rd floor), 171d Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
MASONIC CAREER
Lodge Sublime No 31 GLN (No 1731SC)
Initiated: 2nd July 1982
Installed RWM: 4th February 1991
Lodge Ikwerreland No 39 GLN (No 1762SC)
Founder Member/Charter Secretary: 11th March 1987
Installed RWM: 1st April 1995
Okrika Lodge
Affiliated member: 28th February 1987
Royal Arch Chapter No 3881EC
Joining Member: 4th March 1987
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for Scotland
St Lawrence Sovereign Chapter No 189, Port Harcourt
Admitted to 18th 15 September 1990
Most Wise Sovereign: 2002/2003, 2003/2004
St Lawrence Sovereign Council No 70, Port Harcourt
Admitted to 30th – 14th January 1997
Admitted to 31st – 20th March 2010
Admitted to 32nd – 19th March 2016
Admitted to 33rd – 15th April 2017
Grand Commander – 2017/2018
The Royal Order of Scotland, Provincial Grand Lodge of Mid-Western and Eastern Nigeria
Joining Member 2nd March 2006
REMARKABLE RANKS AND APPOINTMENT
District Grand Director of Ceremonies, District Grand Lodge of Nigeria (SC)- 1998/1999
Substitute District Grand Master, Rivers/Bayelsa Masonic Area, District Grand Lodge of Nigeria (SC) 2000/2002
Depute District Grand Master, District Grand Lodge of Nigeria (SC)- 2005/2006
Honorary Grand Registrar, Grand Lodge of Ghana – 2008
Honorary Grand Treasurer, Grand Lodge of Scotland – 2010
Provincial Grand Master (Southern), Grand Lodge of Nigeria 2012-2017
Administrator Area 2, Province of Nigeria (Far Eastern), Supreme Council of the Antient and Accepted Rite for Scotland.
Honorary Assistant Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Nigeria – 2018
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
Theodore Roosevelt
