Category Tansi Deanery

St. Mark’s parish began as an outstation of Our Lady of Victory Umueri since 1933. The former site for the outstation was St. Mark’s primary school Nneyi Umueri. The outstation was elevated to the status of a parish on 10th…

Ss Peter & Paul was established I. 1894 marking the beginning of Christianity in Umuleri. Rev. Fr. Bisch first set his foot on the soil followed by Rev. Fr. Joseph Bubendorf.Our Lady of Victory parish as an outstation to St.…

The first attempt by the Roman Catholic Mission to establish a mission in Ikem Nando was made between 1885 and 1891 as Nando was the third place the missionaries visited after Onitsha and Aguleri. Unfortunately, Ikem Nando was very far…

St. Jude’s parish was created in January 2007 by Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, the Archbishop of Onitsha. It began as an outstation of St. Joan of Arc Nando. Rev. Fr. Anthony Idigo was the parish priest of Sr. Joan of…

The beginning of the catholic church in farm Settlement dates back to 1962. It all started like planting a mustard seed on the 15th day of November 1962 when the first batch of 129 settled. Some settlers who were brought…

Two Catholic Spiritan Missionaries, Rev Frs Joseph Emile Lutz CSSp and Francis Home, who had arrived in Onitsha in a steamer from Brass, together with other members of their team, sowed the seed of Catholic faith that blossomed all over…