[2] Okoro is from Unwana in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
His father worked as the manager of a palm oil plantation in Calabar at the peak of his career.
His education in the above-mentioned school was halted following the retirement of his father and the subsequent relocation of his family to his hometown, Unwana, Afikpo.
On making his intentions about wanting to become a priest, known to his mother who subsequently informed Right Reverend Thomas McGettrick, his transfer was processed to Queen of Apostles Junior Seminary, Afaha Obong, Akwa-Ibom State, where he stayed from 1957 till 1959.
He wrote the West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination in 1958 and then proceeded to attending Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu.