Austin Echema is a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Nigeria. and since 1996 he has been teaching liturgy at both the Catholic Institute of West Africa (CIWA) Port Harcourt and the Seat of Wisdom Major Seminary Owerri. Among his publications include Corporate Personality in Traditional Igbo Society and the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1995) and Anointing of the Sick and the Healing Ministry (Frankfurt: IKO Verlag, 2006) as well as numerous articles in learned journals, national and international.