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- Q866947 abstract "The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Awgu (Dioecesis Auguensis) in Nigeria was created on July 5, 2005, when it was split off from the Diocese of Enugu. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Onitsha. Its first bishop is John Ifeanyichukwu Okoye. The St. Michael Archangel Parish Church in Awgu is the largest church in the diocese and will therefore become its cathedral.The Diocese covers an area of 1,310 km² of the Enugu State, covering the local government areas: Awgu, Agbogugu, Inyi, Ndeabor, Nnenwe, Owelli and Oji Rivers (except the parish of Ukwuoba). Neighboring dioceses are Enugu to the north, Abakaliki to the east, Umuahia to the south and Awka to the west.The total population in the diocese is 600,000, of which 360,000 are Roman Catholic. The diocese is subdivided into 42 parishes.Further Information The people of Awgu geographical circumscription were a deeply religious people; who before the advent ofChristianity in Igboland had a common religious heritage ofa belief in One, Unseen, Omnipotent God. This AlmightyGod was referred to as Ali Awgu (the Awgu earth goddess).No wonder such popular expressions as “Ali Awgu CheweNwawu” (Ali Awgu protect your child) is common amongAwgu people. This belief and sense of Sacred in this AliAwgu is peculiar to Awgu people. This belief and sense ofsacred in this Ali Awgu is peculiar to Awgu religioustradition permeated and prevailed over the social, moral,spiritual, mutual and stereological background of thepeople before the beginning of the Christian religion.The remotest beginning of the Catholic presence in theAwgu division dates back to the acts of the French catholicMissionaries that came to Eastern Nigeria under Fr. J. E.Lutz in 1885 pitching their first tent at Holy trinity inOnitsha. The evangelical activities of these French HolyGhost missionaries spread to Enugu Section andconsequently to Awgu sub-section by the early years of 20thcentury. The missionary development in Awgu camemainly from Eke town in Udi division, and partly fromUturu in Okigwe. What we call Awgu Diocese today istherefore a historical effect of synthetic, missionary rolesand contributes from Eke and Uturu Catholic Missions.As early as 1912, Chief Onyeama (the warrant paramountChief of Eke town) in his bid to attract Western Educationfor his children and people, had gathered a handful ofpeople (Catechumen) amidst the already existing Anglicanadherents that were found around Eke and Abor towns.Diocesan Directory 7.His invitation to the Catholic Missionaries brought Fr.Joseph Shanahan to Eke in 1914; who laid the firstfoundation of the old Eke Parish/School out of whichsprang the spread of other Catholic Missions in the currentEnugu part of Eastern Nigeria. As the incumbent and firstBishop of Awgu, Rt. Rev. Dr. J. I. Okoye wrote in his B.D.Thesis, Christianity in Mbanabo, its Advent growth, andFuture, “It was indeed at Eke that the religious tree whichspread its branches to other parts of Enugu Diocese wasplanted, watered and nurtured”. Eke Parish was the cradleof the faith that has today become the Diocese of Nsukka,Abakaliki, Makurdi, Oturkpo, Ogoja, and Enugu. It was in1921 that the Roman Catholic Mission set up a School/Church at Oke-Oli Ali-Awgu (St. Michael’s Awgu)which attracted over 100 converts in less than one year.They were received and harbored by Late Chief ChukwuntaNwachumolie. The first teacher to St. Michael’sSchool/Church, Awgu, one Mr. Ofodiamah from Ogwashiuku of the present Delta State of Nigeria. And the first HolyMass at St. Michael’s Awgu was at Oke-Ali-Ohaja Awgu byRev. Fr. Grandin.On the other hand, the missionary movement into Awgufrom Uturu, Okigwe was orchestrated by theexistence/construction of railway line from Enugu to PortHarcourt in 1915. This made that Ndeabor RailwayStations a whirlpool of so many itineraries, mercantile andeven evangelical interactions. This created and provided a pastoral relationship between St. Michael’s Awgu and theRoman Catholic Mission at Uturu, Okigwe (which wasnearer to Awgu than Eke) which was already established in1912. In 1926, Rev. Fr. Treich, the first priest to minister tothe faithful at St. Michael’s Church, Awgu from Uturuprepared Catechumen who received their First HolyDiocesan Directory 8.Communion on 21 October 1926. However, given thefoundation of another Church in Awgu region at Mmaku,which was raised to a parish status in 1922, St. Michael’sAwgu was under Mmaku Parish until 1948 when she wasmade a parish too. Out of these two sources (Eke andUturu), the church continued to spread in Awgu areas withjoyful yet uneasy circumstances, on both sides of themissionaries and mission converts. There were days ofthug-of-war between native ancestral religion andChristianity and of oscillation of people from old traditionalcivilization and the emerging one that is Christian andexotic. Given limited pastors and prevalent pressures fromconflicting old and new faiths, it was really martyrdom likeand heroic to be a Christian then. But it was out of theserocky roots that today we rejoice to the harvest of a young,buoyant and vibrant Awgu ecclesiastical circumscription.Awgu was created a diocese by His Holiness, Pope BenedictXVI on the 8th of July, 2005. On the 29th day of September,it was canonically erected and Most Rev. JohnIfeanyichukwu Okoye ordained and enthroned as its firstbishop.".
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