Nigeria Catholic Network (NCN) is the one stop integrated network for all that concerns the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Here you find news and information on the structures, administration, sacramental life, institutions, groups, organs, events, and much more, in the Church in Nigeria. This is an initiative of the National Directorate of Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, (CSN), the Communication Office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN)
FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
CSN and allied agencies set to hold 2023 retreat By Rachel Kogi & Vincent Nnadozie, CSN In line with the yearly culture of preparing for the working year at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), all the agencies of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) are set to hold a two-day retreat on January
…Says Angel Michael not Jesus Christ By Chancel Bomadi Sunday BOMADI—The bishop, Catholic Diocese of Bomadi, Most Rev. Hyacinth Egbebo, has tasked Nigerians to be courageous and have faith in God in their expectations of a messiah to deliver the country out of the dungeon of slavery, underdevelopment and corruption. Egbebo gave the task
Pope Benedict XVI, exceptionally saintly & scholarly – Bishop Francis Adesina By Rachel Kogi, CSN As Church and circular leaders all over the world continue to react to the passing of the immediate past Supreme Pontiff, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, the Bishop of Ijebu-Ode Diocese, Most Rev. Francis Adesina has added his voice to the
Warri: Consecration & Installation of new Bishop on 9 February, 2023 The date for the Installation of the new Bishop of Warri Diocese, Rt. Rev. Anthony Ovayero Ewherido, has been fixed for Thursday, 9 February, 2023. The event will hold at the Holy Martyrs of Uganda Seminary in Effurun, Warri Delta State, starting from 10am.
CBCN: Deeply spiritual & highly cerebral Pope Benedict kept everyone on path of orthodoxy – Archbishop Ugorji By Padre Mike Nsikak Umoh, CSN The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has expressed regrets over the loss, to the Church and humanity, of the Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI,
“Pope Benedict was a great Church man who spent his whole life working for the Church” – Cardinal Onaiyekan By Padre Mike Nsikak Umoh, CSN A foremost ecclesiastic of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has called on all Catholics and men and women of good will not to mourn, but to “celebrate
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican says that Pope Francis will celebrate the funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. It will be an unprecedented event in which a current pope will celebrate the funeral for a former one. Francis was elected after Benedict resigned in 2013. The latest on
BREAKING NEWS: POPE BENEDICT RETURNS TO GOD The 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. By Vatican News Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. The Holy See Press Office announced that he died at 9:34 AM on
Pope Francis appoints Fr. Ewherido as the new Bishop of Warri Diocese The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Anthony Ovayero Ewherido, Rector of Saints Peter and Paul Inter-Diocesan Major Seminary in Ibadan, as Bishop of the Diocese of Warri (Nigeria). Curriculum Vitae H.E. Bishop Anthony Ovayero Ewherido was born on Oct. 8,1960, in Eghwu, in
Do not be afraid, God will bless us with a better future, Archbishop Okeke charges Nigerians at Christmas From Aloysius Attah, Onitsha Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha, Most Rev. Valerian Maduka Okeke has charged Christians and Nigerians alike to deeply trust in God and eschew fear, as God will make the future better. Speaking yesterday