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
SUNDAY, 9 MAY 2021
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Visit/Nkuzi nke Okwukwe, ​followed by Benediction at Our Lady of Assumption Parish, Umuoji.
MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
10.00am: Meeting of Bishops of Onitsha and Owerri Ecclesiastical Provinces at Onitsha.
TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
4.00pm: Anniversary of the death of Archbishop Albert Obiefuna - Mass at St Albert's Church, Oraukwu
SUNDAY, 16 MAY 2021
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
​WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
8.00am: Mass at St Gabriel's Catholic Secretariat Chapel, Abuja. A live broadcast on African Independent Television (AIT).
THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
5.00pm: Funeral Vigil Mass for Eugene Onuselogu at Nnokwa.
FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
10.00am: Funeral Mass (in concelebration) at St Paul's Catholic Church, Abba.
SUNDAY, 23 MAY 2021
PENTECOST SUNDAY
10.00am: ​Pastoral Visit/Confirmation at St Joan of Arc's Parish,  Nando.
WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
10.00am: ​Plenary Meeting of Onitsha Archdiocesan Priests at Shanahan Hall, Onitsha.
SATURDAY, 29 MAY 2021
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Visit/Community Rosary at Regina Caeli Parish,  Umuoji.
SUNDAY, 30 MAY 2021
HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY
10.00am: ​Pastoral Visit/Confirmation: Blessed Iwene Tansi Chaplaincy of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Igbariam.
WED./THU, 2/3 JUNE 2021
Meeting of the Administrative Board of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria at the Catholic Secretariat, Abuja
FRIDAY, 4 JUNE 2021
10.00am: Funeral Mass for Catechist John Nwankwo at St Peter's Church, Awkuzu.
SATURDAY, 5 JUNE 2021
10.00am: ​Mass (in concelebration​) for Shanahan Day Celebration at Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha.
SUNDAY, 6 JUNE 2021
10TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
10.00am: ​Pastoral visit/Confirmation: Chaplaincy of Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe
MONDAY, 7 JUNE 2021
10.00am: ​Office at Aguleri (10.00am - 1.00pm)
FRIDAY, 11 JUNE 2021
SOLEMNITY OF SACRED HEART OF JESUS
11.00am: ​Pastoral visit/Confirmation: Feastday of Sacred Heart College, Nteje
SATURDAY, 12  JUNE 2021
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Visit/Community Rosary at St Joseph's Parish,  Oraukwu.
SUNDAY, 13 JUNE 2021
ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
4.00pm: ​Pastoral Visit/Nkuzi nke Okwukwe, ​followed by Benediction at St Michael's Parish, Awkuzu.
BISHOP CHIDI DENIS ISIZOH
"O lux beatissima, reple cordis intima tuorum fidelium"
You shall be my witnesses...to the ends of the earth.
Confirming the young in faith!
Our teachers in school - Aguleri
A shared pastoral interaction in Umunya
Around our hero, Blessed Iwene Tansi.
Late Ugoburuje Onuegbu remembered at home, Igbo Ukwu.
​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)