Background
His father was Chief Amos Kattey of the Nchia Kingdom, a devout Christian.
His father was Chief Amos Kattey of the Nchia Kingdom, a devout Christian.
He attended Saint Paul"s Catholic School in Obigbo, now called Oyigbo, where he did primary school studies, from 1954 to 1959. He also attended the National High School, in Aba, since 1962. He studied at Ahmadu Bello University in Aba, graduating in Mechanical Engineering in 1976.
He obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of Benin in 1986 and a Masters of Education degree in Guidance and Counselling at the University of Portuguese Harcourt in 1989. Kattey became a born-again Christian in 1971 due to the ministry of the Scripture Union. He would be Zonal Representative of the Scripture Union.
He became archdeacon of the newly created Eleme Archdeaconry in 1995.
Kattey was nominated Principal of the School of Ordination of the Diocese of the Niger Delta North, in 1996, later Staff Development Center, where he was director He was consecrated as Archbishop of Niger Delta Province at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, in Lokoja, on 23 May 2009.
He is also Bishop of the Diocese of Niger Delta North. The kidnap took place not for religious reasons but for a ransom.
Kattey would be freed on 14 September 2013, near Portuguese Harcourt, in a stable condition.
Kattey published Ordination of Women: Give Them a Chance (1992) and Handbook on Biblical Preaching (1992).
