‘Mber Months and their Symbolic Values.
The months of September to December, the last quarter of the calendar year, are popularly regarded as the 'mber months (due to the common suffix in their names), much like the way the ages of thirteen to nineteen, with 'teen in common, make for teenage, a distinctive period of life.Read More
2. Superior General: Welcome Address To The Englarged General Council (EGC)
“I praise you Father, Lord of heaven and earth…”(Lk.10:21)
For this EGC I have not made any “Superior General’s Report” describing the present state of the Congregation. It will be in the sharing and reflections of this meeting that its current situation will become evident. Read More
1.Priestly Ordinations 2008 A total of twenty-eight Spiritan deacons were ordained priests in 2008 at different locations in the country by various bishops according to the following schedule. Thirteen of them are appointed to missions outside the Nigeria.Read More
2. Ordination by Bishop Tafoya
Awomama Ordinations by Bishop Arthur Tafoya On Saturday July 5, 2008, 15 Bishop Arthur N. Tafoya, the Bishop of Pueblo ordained fifteen Spiritan Priests for the Province of Nigeria at the Holy Ghost Novitiate Chapel, Awomama in Imo State. Read More
He was born on April 30, 1939. He was a Catholic Priest of the
Holy Ghost Congregation (Spiritans), Province of Nigeria. He
hails from Ezeogba, Emekuku, Owerri in Imo State of Nigeria. Read
More
Rev. Fr Godwin Nnamani,
C.S.Sp.
The news of his death of came to us like a bolt from the blue. It
was most unexpected. It was not yet up to a week (five days only)
after the burial of Fr. Philip Aguh, and now Fr. Nnamani is dead.Read More
Rev. Fr Timothy (Tadgh)
ODWYER C.S.Sp
The life of Fr Timothy (Tadgh) Odwyer C.S.Sp was a continuous act
of witness of Religious missionary availability in the Spiritan family
for Christian evangelization. Read More
Rev. Fr Timothy M. Buckley C.S.Sp
The death of Rev. Fr Timothy M.Buckley C.S.Sp, which occurred on October 1, 2007 at Enugu, Nigeria, marks the end of the grand era of the dedicated missionary presence of the Holy Ghost Fathers and Brothers (SPIRITANS) of the Irish Province in what is presently the Onitsha region of the Spiritan Province of Nigeria. Read More
Rev. Fr Daniel Nwamarabia C.S.Sp
With resignation to the will of God, we announce the death of Rev. Fr. Daniel Emeka NWAMARABIA C.S.Sp, of the Holy Ghost Congregation, Province of Nigeria. He died at the University Teaching Hospital Gwagwalada, Abuja, Nigeria at 6.00 a.m. on Sunday February 17, 2008. Read More
NECROLOGY
Deceased Members of the Province of Nigeria
Month
Date
Name
Status & Year of death
January
5
AGUH Philip Obinna
Priest, 2007
9
EZIKE Paulinus
Priest, 1968
12
OSSAI Eugene
Scholastic, 1981
15
FAERENGA Fidelis
Priest, 2002
21
HEEREY Bernard
Priest, 1992
29
NNAMANI Godwin
Priest, 2007
February
4
AYOOSU Wang Philip
Priest, 2003
6
DIKE Fortunatus
Scholastic, 1981
7
HEEREY Charles
Archbishop, 1967
12
NWEDO Anthony
Bishop, 2000
17
NWAMARABIA Daniel
Priest, 2008
19
MACKAY Charles
Priest, 2003
March
12
EKE James
Scholastic, 1993
17
OKOYE Godfrey
Bishop, 1977
23
IKEGWUONU Benjamin
Priest 1998
April
19
DINAN Peter
Priest, 2000
20
ANYANWU Leonard
Brother, 2005
May
2
O’DWYER Timothy
Priest, 2007
June
1
OKORONKWO John
Priest, 2005
1
SADIKU Vincent
Scholastic, 2005
24
NWANYIA Damian
Priest, 1996
26
ANI Christopher
Junior Scholastic, 1958
July
16
EGBE Innocent
Priest, 1981
September
15
ORAKWUDO Moses
Priest, 2002
19
CHILAKA Boniface
Priest, 1997
October
1
BUCKLEY Timothy
Priest, 2007
9
OCHE Godwin
Brother, 2001
16
OBASI Lazarus
Priest, 1999
November
15
IKUBOLAJE Emmanuel
Priest, 1994
25
IJA Augustine
Novice, 1994
December
10
NNAJI Valentine
Priest, 2004
10
OBI Aloysius Nwabueze
Priest, 2005
20
AKERENYI Peter
Scholastic, 2004
“Jesus said to her,
‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die’ ”
(Jn 11, 25 – 26)
“Jesus said to her,
‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die’ ”
(Jn 11, 25 – 26)
A total of twenty-eight Spiritan deacons were ordained priests in 2008 at different locations in the country by various bishops according to the following schedule. Thirteen of them are appointed to missions outside the Nigeria. 
