On December 1, 2017, Bishop Augustine Ukwuoma led the groundbreaking and the stone laying ceremony of TRINITAS UNIVERSITY of the Catholic Diocese of Orlu at the main campus site, KM 20, Owerri/Onitsha Road, Awo-Omamma, Imo State, Nigeria. This welcome project is designed to provide high quality and accessible Catholic higher education for students. Learn how you can be part of this historic project.
We take the Church's urgent call for the fostering of vocations as a value we treasure highly (Pope Paul VI, Decree on Priestly Training Optatam Totus, n.2). Across the diocese, there are many programs designed for this purpose. We begin with the family and get everyone to think of their unique vocations in the sacraments of service—ordained and religious life, and married life. Be part of this great call to foster vocations in the diocese.
Most weekends of the year, the bishop pays a pastoral visit to parishes and institutions within the Diocese of Orlu. It is an opportunity for the bishop to be with the people, listen to them and offer his pastoral services. To learn when the bishop would be visiting your parish or institution, please click the link below.
FROM THE SECRETARIAT
The funeral of Late Msgr. Emmanuel C. Nwosu will be holding on July 20, 2020. Funeral mass at 10am at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Orlu.
We appreciate your desire as colleagues, Co-formators, Contemporaries, Students, Friends, Wells wishers e.t.c to mourn with us on that funeral day of our beloved brother as slated above. But the circumstances of the time (Covid 19 pandemic) will definitely make us to limit the number of people that will be in attendance. Sequel to this, the funeral attendance of Late Msgr. Emmanuel C. Nwosu will be STRICTLY ON INVITATION. This will enable us to observe precautionary measures and stay safe.
While relying on your cooperation and prayerful wishes, remain blessed.
We regret to announce the demise of Msgr. Emmanuel C. Nwosu who slept in the Lord on Sunday July 5, 2020. Pray for his peaceful repose. Funeral arrangements will be communicated later.
July 1st: Imo State Covid 19 Task Force takes sensitization program to the Catholic Diocese of Orlu. Meets with the Bishop and Priests at Sacred Heart Pastoral Center, urges them to partner in the effort to curb the menace of Corona Virus.
New Apostolic Nuncio appointed
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 01:01
Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Brian Udaigwe, Titular Archbishop of Suelli as the new Apostolic Nuncio to the Apostolic Nunciature in Sri Lanka, the Catholic Church announced yesterday.
Media Spokesperson for the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka Rev. Fr.W.N. Lal Pushpadewa Fernando OMI said Monsignor Udaigwe will succeed Archbishop Pierre Nguyen Van Tot, Apostolic Nuncio, who completed his term as the Ambassador of the Vatican to Sri Lanka.
“Monsignor Udaigwe was ordained a priest on May 2, 1992 and was incardinated to Orlu, Nigeria. He holds a degree in Canon Law and entered the diplomatic service in 1994. He has since then served in the Apostolic Nunciature in Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Bulgaria, Thailand and Great Britain. He was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Benin on 08th April 2013 and to Togo on 16th July 2013, where he serves to date. Monsignor Udaigwe is proficient in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
“The Apostolic Nunciature to Sri Lanka is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka with the rank of Ambassador. Nuncio serves as the Ambassador of the Pope as Head of State of the Vatican City and is an emissary between the Catholic hierarchy in Sri Lanka and the Pope as Head of the Catholic Church.
“We wish God’s grace and abundant blessings to Monsignor Udaigwe as he assumes office as the Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka and offer our continued prayers and support in his new ministry for the Church,” the press release from the Catholic Church added.
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Happy Twelfth Episcopal Anniversary to His Lordship Most Rev. Augustine T. Ukwuoma, Catholic Bishop of Orlu. Consecrated and installed Bishop of Orlu on June 21, 2008.
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