TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND VISITORS...

Greetings from the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, Office of the Auxiliary Bishop! ​What a joy to have you here! This website is intended to be an outlet to present some of our activities to promote the work of evangelization. It is in keeping with our favorite working Biblical quotation: "I desire to share with you not only the Good News of God but my entire self."  (1 Thess. 2,8).  ​PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD MAY BLESS OUR LITTLE EFFORTS. "Entirely for God".
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Most Rev. Denis Chidi ISIZOH
Titular Bishop of LEGIA (in the Roman Province of Numidia, now part of Algeria)
Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of ONITSHA. Nigeria.

​CURRENT/UPCOMING PASTORAL ACTIVITIES
​"If you are going to be a Christian at all, you might as well live entirely for God"- Blessed Tansi
SATURDAY, 19  JUNE 2021
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Interaction with the Secular Institute of St Raphael, ​Abatete.
SUNDAY, 20 JUNE 2021
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
10.00am: ​Pastoral visit/Confirmation: St Peter & Paul Out-Station, ​Umueri.
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4.00pm: Infant Baptism at Aguleri.
FRIDAY, 25 JUNE 2021
10.00am: Funeral Mass for ma Meg Ivenso at St Joseph's Church, ​Aguleri.
SATURDAY, 26 JUNE 2021
​10.00am: ​Pastoral visit/Confirmation: Holy Rosary Girls College, Nsugbe.
SUNDAY, 27 JUNE 2021
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Visit/Nkuzi nke Okwukwe, ​followed by Benediction at St Michael's Parish, Ogbunike.
SATURDAY, 3 JULY 2021
​10.00am: ​Meeting with the Directors of
Diocesan Liturgical Commissions of Onitsha and Owerri Ecclesiastical Provinces at Aguleri.
SUNDAY, 4 JULY 2021
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
10.00am: ​Pastoral visit/Confirmation: St Thomas the Apostle Parish, Uke.
MONDAY, 5 JULY 2021
10.00am: ​Office at Aguleri (10.00am - 1.00pm)
WEDNESDAY, 7 JULY 2021
11.00am: ​Missa/mensa with 2015 Priest-friends at Aguleri

THURSDAY, 8 JULY 2021
10.00am: Funeral Mass for Patty Koggu at St Michael's Church, ​Ogbunike.
SUNDAY, 11 JULY 2021
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Visit/Nkuzi nke Okwukwe, ​followed by Benediction at St Stephen's Chaplaincy, Nkwelle Ezunaka.
SATURDAY, 17 JULY 2021
​10.00am: ​Mass (in concelebration​) 40th Anniversary of the Priestly ordination of Archbishop Valerian Okeke at Holy Trinity Basilica Onitsha.
SUNDAY, 18 JULY 2021
SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
10.00am: ​Pastoral Visit/Holy Mass at the Secular Institute of St Raphael, ​Abatete.
MONDAY, 19 JULY 2021
11.00am: ​Missa/mensa with 2018 Priest-friends at Aguleri
WEDNESDAY, 21 JULY 2021
11.00am: ​Missa/mensa with 2016 Priest-friends at Aguleri
SUNDAY, 25 JULY 2021
SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Visit/Nkuzi nke Okwukwe, ​followed by Benediction at St William's Parish, Nkwelle Ezunaka.
MONDAY, 26 JULY 2021
10.00am: Funeral Mass for ma Marcellina Okoli at St John the Baptist Church, Ezinifite (Aguata).
THURSDAY, 29 JULY 2021
5.00pm: Funeral Vigil Mass for ma Grace Mbanwusi at Umunya.
SUNDAY, 18 JULY 2021
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
10.00am: ​Pastoral Visit/Holy Mass at Holy Trinity Parish, ​Igbedor.
BISHOP CHIDI DENIS ISIZOH
Statue of Blessed Michael Cyprian Iwene Tansi at the
​Auditorium of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja.
"O lux beatissima, reple cordis intima tuorum fidelium"
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis!
Riverine Ministry - Priestly solidarity.
Directors of Communications at Abuja.
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Talking to the Press at Abuja - 16 May 2021.
​FAVOURITE GUIDING BIBLICAL PASSAGE
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        "I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.  For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
​          Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher. For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you." (2 Timothy, 1,6-14)