Catholic Diocese

Of

Enugu


Most Rev. Callistus Valentine Chukwuma Onaga

Most Rev. Ernest Anezichukwu Obodo

Very Rev. Fr. Geoffrey Aguigwo



About the Catholic Diocese of Enugu

So it was also in this city founded on the top of hills when the messengers of peace published the good tidings of salvation in Christ Jesus. So onerous was their task then, but so rewarding are their efforts that we today speak of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu.

Indeed, the history of the Church in any part of the world is always associated with the story of indefatigable and dauntless missionary zeal of the lovers of the Word. The illumination of the territory of Enugu with the Word of God took various stages and turns.

Enugu was part and parcel of the Apostolic Prefecture of the Lower Niger, which His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII created in 1889 in acknowledgment of the efforts of Fr. Joseph Lutz and his team. Fr. Lutz was made the first Apostolic Prefect of this Prefecture.

He and his successors made relentless efforts to spread the Good News to the length and breadth of the new Prefecture. However, it was under Fr. Joseph Shanahan (later Bishop), as the fifth Apostolic Prefect of the Prefecture of Lower Niger, that the Good News of salvation in Christ Jesus had a grip on the soil of Enugu.


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About The Bishop

A Brief Profile of Most Rev. Callistus Valentine Chukwuma Onaga

Callistus Valentine Chukwuma Onaga who is the fifth child of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent and Victoria Onaga was born on 29 September 1958. His mother was the granddaughter of the Paramount Ruler, Chief Chukwuani (d.1930) from Ozalla, Nkanu West Local Government Area, Enugu State, Nigeria. He attended St. Anthony Primary School Agbudu, Udi Local Government Area, Enugu State, Nigeria, from 1964 to 1972. He received his secondary education at the Sacred Heart Seminary Nsude and St. John Cross Seminary Nsukka, Nigeria.

He bagged his degree in Philosophy and earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree in sacred theology from the Urban University in Rome, and on August 8, 1987, he was ordained to the priesthood. He lived in St. Joseph Hospital, Truisdorf Germany working as Chaplain and attending lectures in Fredrick Wilhems Universitat, Bonn, Germany. He specialized in Catholic Social Ethics (Systematic Theology). His doctoral Thesis is titled “Civilization of Work- The Necessity for a Socio-ethical Foundation of a true Civilization of Work in Nigeria and the Methods for its realization”. He got his PhD on September 2, 2000. He lectured “Sozio-politische Entwicklung in Africa” at the Katholische Soziales Institute, Bad Honnef, in the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany.

When he returned to Nigeria in 2001, he held highly placed and responsible offices in Enugu Diocese among which are: the Deputy Director of the Catholic Institute for Development, Justice and Peace (CIDJAP), Chairman of Diocesan Politics Commission (2002), Lecturer at St. Paul International Institute of Evangelization, Emene (SPIIEE), Parish Priest of St. Mary Parish Uwani, Member of the Diocesan Curia, Member of the Diocesan College of Consultors, General Coordinator of all Diocesan (over 30) Commissions, the Chairman of the Committee for the Inauguration of Awgu Diocese,  Cathedral Administrator Holy Ghost Cathedral Enugu and the Vicar General of Enugu Diocese.

On February 9, 2009, Fr. Onaga was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the Enugu Diocesan Bishop at the retirement of Bishop Anthony Okonkwo Gbuji, his predecessor. He was consecrated and installed as the Fifth Bishop of Enugu on May 2, 2009 by His Grace Archbishop Renzo Fratini, the Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria.  His Excellency, Most. Rev. C. V.C Onaga is a member of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa as an ordinary. He is a member of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN). He was the liaison bishop for the Nigerian Police from 2011 to 2017. He is the Chairman Caritas Department, CBCN, from 2022 till date.


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