NewStats: 3,261,494 , 8,174,167 topics. Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025 at 12:30 PM 3y511t

Austinoiz:


Your stupidity is well documented. Keep massaging it in your delusionary media rants for Okoroawusa.

You sound like one of them. Shame on you for opposing your fellow Igbo because he's from Awka. Hopefully you will understand when you are rejected by your fellow Igbos for being from Mbaise.

whyteone:
Just so you know,it also happened in the west and to our revered Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okojie.See excerpts from an interview he granted Punch newspapers.........

What’s your take on the rejection of the Pope’s order in Imo?

Those priests must obey. Obedience is important. I suffered the same thing in 1971. I was made an auxiliary bishop of Oyo Province. The priests rejected me. They came to warn me in Lagos that if I came, I was gone. It was tough. I went there and started working. I started winning their hearts gradually. I suffered great opposition. Later, I was transferred from Oyo to Lagos. God has been faithful. I was made an archbishop at a tender age. People started criticising my appointment. They said, “Eni ti o ti gbenu kuro lomu iya e,” meaning someone who is immature.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/punchng.com/some-women-roll-their-eyeballs-to-entice-me-okogie/amp/

Religion Shaaa!!!

mrvitalis:

Yes by cardinal arinze that's why his place with less priest have 6 mbaise with more have non

Mbaise priesta are known to be pedophile priests, so they can't advance in the ranks.

mrvitalis:

Tell cardinal arinze mbaise can't be intimidated
He can do that with other places not mbaise

Call us any name you want

If you think it's OK for cardinal arinze to appoint over 5 bishop from awka with less than 500 fathers

While mabise with over 700 and over 80 waiting ordination to have non then you are worse than the devil

Worse than the devil? Then what about the Pope that earlier mandated the priests to accept Okpaleke? Maybe he's d devil's father. And you call yourself a Christian?

cosby02:
Abeg....what if they bring yoruba man to be Bishop in Imo

To do what?

tolugar:
Shame on the catholic community of ahiara diocese

A big disgrace to Catholicism


I thought we are united as one in the body of Christ

Obviously, you thought wrongly.

Op, you are very stupid for painting a picture of Igbo hating a fellow Igbo here . This has nothing to do with being Igbo. If the Bishop was a Yoruba or Hausa the same thing would happen. It's purely church politics biko.

derealj:
I understand the Greviances of the Mbaise people. The Bishop of Okigwe Diocese is also from Anambra. But this is the Church for crying out loud. I don't know why they don't have many Bishops of Imo extract is it that they are not found worthy I won't doubt that though. And they have also forgotten that an Mbaise man is the VC of Unizik and he has the of the people even when his leadership is nothing to write home about. Mbaise people should park one side Biko, their attitude is not worthy of a Christian.

Is not about the bishop not being an mbaise priest, but fraud process that brought him. I believe you know that there are processes that are observed before bishop is appointed

Kennydoc:


Worse than the devil? Then what about the Pope that earlier mandated the priests to accept Okpaleke? Maybe he's d devil's father. And you call yourself a Christian?

Pope never mandated any priest to accept anybody it was from Cardinal arinze not from pope

Kennydoc:


Worse than the devil? Then what about the Pope that earlier mandated the priests to accept Okpaleke? Maybe he's d devil's father. And you call yourself a Christian?

Cardinal arinze told a lie and took a fake priest to Rome

delivryboy:


Mbaise priesta are known to be pedophile priests, so they can't advance in the ranks.

Do you have proof

NORSIYK:

How come all bishops in anambra state are all from anambra. what happened?
I need an honest answer please

You have not ask yourself why Unizik VC is from mbaise. Mbaise people are natural wicked

World politics starts in the church

Quite a shame..this seals my believe about mbaise people, who on earth ever worries about were a bishop ordained to serve the people is from...this is the first time am hearing such sentiment...

NORSIYK:

Is not about the bishop not being an mbaise priest, but fraud process that brought him. I believe you know that there are processes that are observed before bishop is appointed

Are you telling me that if another Bishop from Anambra is brought there through your supposed "due process " he will be accepted. I doubt that.

Abogwara:


You sound like one of them. Shame on you for opposing your fellow Igbo because he's from Awka. Hopefully you will understand when you are rejected by your fellow Igbos for being from Mbaise.

You've always been on the side of injustice, so no point arguing further with you.

It's pity. An Imo man is vice chancellor of Unizik (or so) and another of UNN. These are government structures trying to bring love and uniformity. But, here in the church supposed to be doing that very thing, the very same people who head positions in other states find it even in their "church mind" to accommodate. What a shame! This people's arrogance has gone too far and there will be devastating repercussions very soon.

Ickes:
To do what?

Wait lemme ask ifa

gratiaeo:

You have not ask yourself why Unizik VC is from mbaise. Mbaise people are natural wicked

You are senseless, we are talking about church not school, meanwhile the unizik vc has been with the school for so many years, what about okpalaeke has he been ahiara in his life befor

Austinoiz:


Grow up for once and stop spewing trash. Can your empty head justify why an Mbaise man can't vie to govern IMO?
Scumbag!

You are either a fugitive or a vagabond judging by your name, it is 'widely' believed that MBAISE mofus are more cunny than the snake......Let's face the fact on ground and keep aside the governorship matter......till 2019

derealj:

Are you telling me that if another Bishop from Anambra is brought there through your supposed "due process " he will be accepted. I doubt that.

Yes definitely, no doubt about it

igbos can never be united, All this hullabalue of biafra is simply a fraud.

tolugar:
Shame on the catholic community of ahiara diocese

A big disgrace to Catholicism


I thought we are united as one in the body of Christ

tolugar:
Shame on the catholic community of ahiara diocese

A big disgrace to Catholicism


I thought we are united as one in the body of Christ

Igbos aren't united

Appointment of okpalaeke as bishop of my diocese followed an unprecedented error of the first order. First n foremost, the canon law which stipulates the process of appointment of bishops was recklessly abandoned by the awka link in the vatican as against the normal process. Our late bishop Most Rev Dr Victor Adibe Chikwe submitted names of three people which was a norm all Catholic bishop follow every yr. It is from this list that is submitted that The vatican chooses one person incase by virtue of death or retirement of a substantive bishop. In this list, a new yr list nullifies that submitted the previous yrs. Okpalaeke's name was never in the list, it took Vatican 2yrs n two months to smuggle okpalaeke's name into the list. Before this, Okpalaeke had never worked in ahiara dioces either as a seminarian or as a priest. He had never worked in owerri ecclesiastical province where ahiara diocese falls in, the canon law stipulates that a bishop should come within the province or the person must have worked within the province as a seminarian or as a priest. The question is, who smuggled okpalaeke’? Ahiara priests n lay faithful are saying anybody within the province of owerri cud be our bishop but not somebody from far away awka province. Owerri province is made up of Abia state n imo state. Imo has 4dioceses n abia two dioceses which add up to 6dioceses within owerri ecclesiatical province. Due process was not folllowed in okpalaeke's appointment. This has being going in many dioceses. It happened in benin awka province was appointed as bishop, it happened in aba diocese when it was created out of umuahia dioces awka man was appointed bishop, it happened in okigwe dioces, awka man was appointed bishop, it happened in niger state, awka man was appointed. The question is wat is in awka province that other provinces don’t have? The ahiara hypocrisy of appointment has exposed the rot in the system over the yrs n It has oppened the eyes of the Vatican on the politics in the church over the yrs. Ahiara has the highest number of priests in Nigeria n africa if numerical strength is measured diocese by dioces. It is on record that 2 in every 3families in ahiara has one priest. I hav a friend whose two brothers r priests. Ahiara has over 200 priests who are phd holders in canon laws, some are professors in many universities. Two professors in futo are rev fathers from ahiara diocese. Why should some forces play games thinkn ahiara priests and laity r fools

mexix:
Quite a shame..this seals my believe about mbaise people, who on earth ever worries about were a bishop ordained to serve the people is from...this is the first time am hearing such sentiment...

Either you are born today or you have been living in a cage, Ahiara Diocese is not the first to reject a bishop neither will they be last, It hsa happened in the west, happened in PH and warri

NORSIYK:

Either you are born today or you have been living in a cage, Ahiara Diocese is not the first to reject a bishop neither will they be last, It hsa happened in the west, happened in PH and warri

Rejected because the natives rather prefers their son?
Smh....
Congrats to you guys...remarkable fit i guess...

chai!! even the clergies rejected him simply because he is not from their village.95% of the reasons africa reamain backward is religion and tribe

ObservantFellow:
There is politics in the Church.
This has nothing to do with being Igbos.

it Has Everything To Do With Being Igbo. If The Priest Is Oyibo, Wont They Happily Accept Him? Maybe God Will Build Another Kingdom For Mbaise People In Heaven.

MXrap:
Imolites are cursed people. So Arinze now appoints bisops and no longer pope? Cursed people. Let us see who will laugh last.

You cursed soul, so by your thinking Pope appointed those anambra indigenous priests to be bishop in their local dioceses, and appionted non indigenous priest to Ahiara diocese.
Do you even know how bishops are being appointed, if you know you would curse okpalaeke for being greddy and selfish

mexix:


Rejected because the natives rather prefers their son?
Smh....
Congrats to you guys...remarkable fit i guess...

Rejected because he was imposed on the people by his uncle cardinal arinze