naptu2: The same type of thing happened when Anthony Okogie was appointed Bishop of Oyo early in 1971. They didn't want him. They wanted an Oyo man. There were protests and they even threatened to kill him. However, the Pope's decision stood.

Eventually, when Okogie was appointed Archbishop of Lagos in 1972 (after the death of the previous archbishop) the people of Oyo did not want him to go. He had warmed his way into their hearts.

Truth. Whoever they appoint as Bishop shouldn't be a problem, its God they need to worship and not man, except they have external motives to that effect. Mostimes I wonder what Africa is turning into. This christinaity we are all fighting and killing ourselves for was actually introduced to us by the whites who still live in peace. Now, I'm begining to lose my faith, but I trust God will surely strengthen me.

Mbaise and Nsukka areas produce more Rv Fathers in the catholic church than any other part of Igboland. But that doesn't mean they have to take laws into their hand in determining who becomes their bishop.

Those beautiful Mbaise people who gave us wonderful Sir Warrior and Oriental Brothers should please take it easy and allow a fellow Igboman from Anambra to be their bishop.

There are hundreds of Mbaise born Rv Fathers serving in different parts of Igboland. Egbe belu, Ugo belu!!

ZUBY77: Our bishop, the bishop of Awgu diocess is from Awgu diocess.
He is the first Rev Fr from the diocess.

There is politics in Church, there has always been.
Cardinal Arinze have a hand in this.
This people know what they are talking about. This new Pope knows nothing about the Rev Fathers in any diocess in Nigeria. Someone is telling him who to chose.
I like this mbaise people. They are strong iin their faith.

seriously it baffles me when people like you who are not well informed or rather ignorant try to impress. Even the article did make mention that the bishop was appointed by the last pope benedict, now what has the new pope got to do with it? Now let me give you a little lecture about the catholic church's line of hierarchy for those calling cardinal arinze's name, do you know there is a pope's representative in nigeria(vatican's ambassador to nigeria,(vatican) being a sovereign state) called the papal nuncio? he is in a better position to make recommendations to the pope through the 'carmelengo'(vatican's secretary of state). Now it is mischievious to allege that some one who is in far away Rome, minding his own responsibilities was instrumental to the appointment of his 'states man' while the person whose official duty it is to make such recommendation is never mentioned. The embers you guys are fanning might turn out to be one big fire that you can't put out.

This is no political party now. Pope Francis came all the way from South America to Pope in Vatican now.
No be Pdp zoning now biko!

This is no political party now. Pope Francis came all the way from South America to be Pope in Vatican now.
No be Pdp zoning now biko!

Tribalism in d highest rank.....who dis youths think say them be sef?..........disagreeing wit GOD......hmmmmmmm na wa o

Most of you are ignorant of this issue and should 1st of all study the entire situation before commenting. You cannot have a particular session imposing themselves on others for nearly 80years and claiming justice. This might be the beginning of the end of Catholicism in the Southern Igbo area if the issue is not handled with care.

said by you.....rubbish

1-She is coming, isn't she?
2-They have eaten,haven't they?
Teacher: who can give me another example?:|
Okon:
Sir!, Na Yam we go chop 2day, chopn't we? Teacher: what kind of sentence is that:>
Pls who can help correct him?/
Akpos: Sir, Na Yam we go chop 2day, yamn't we?
!!! I rest my case.

I am so ashamed of Mbaise people for this display of hatred and ignoramus. They allowed their sentiments, bias to becloud their sense of reasoning even in the church.

Since the death of Ahiara Diocese some two yrs back, nearly about 5 priests from Mbaise/Imo state area have been nominated/considered for the Bishop of the Diocese. It is however painful that same Mbaise people wrote several petitions to the church to the effect that such persons who are their own are unfit for the position. Thus, the church cannot wait forever looking for a decent person from their area since everybody from there has one issue or anor against him.

Catholic church has passed the level of ethnic jingoism, they immediately around, behold former Rev Fr Peter Okpalaeke now Bishop Okpalaeke was nominated. They couldn't see anything against him but as usual satan has a way of dealing with some people. Next was that all those people kicking against their own now turned against the Bishop Elect on the ground that he's Anambra. Forgeting that catholic church has since passed the stage of those ethnicity factor.

Anyway whether they like it or not, Okpalaeke is a Bishop who can be posted to anywhere, if Ahiara abi Mbaise people insist, they will ofcourse be without Bishop & the Diocese can be taken away from them. So many people are yearning for Diocese.

On a lighter note,if they want they can decamp from catholic church & form Mbaise Progressive Church, afterall their Governor has decamped to All Progressive Congress!!

Look at what they did to our brothers? Religion bigotry has now eaten to the tribalistic brain of our people. Where is our world going with this religion madness?

seunfly: Why are we so divided like ds, from religion to tribal to ethnic and now within same ethnnotribal group. The worst of it is that we can't even limit it to politics, economic or social, we are taking it to the house of God.
Really shame on us.

shame on them.

Gej start dis in nigeria,so nobody shal blame them

These people should understand that the catholic church doesnt do things for doing sake,they follow law and order

Abagworo:

They will gladly accept a Yoruba man. That is the reality. They will accept an Ngwa man or an Ijaw man but not that particular man from that particular zone.

Go to bed and sleep with your bigotry, you bigot! And for your information, they're are insisting on a native being the bishop elect. So, don't give us the hogwash that they can accept any person from any other region other than Anambra state(since don't have the boldness to mention names)By the way, I hate cowards!

Typical Igbo things. In Abroad we have Nigeria community, igbo community, Yoruba or odua community, etc...
But igbo have everything eg. Anambra community, Mbaise Community, Aba community, Ebonyi community, Enugu community, orlu community etc.

They have all states and towns communities. The day of election na war front.

dplomaticVal: Pls
What
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Easterner
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Bishop



IHERE MEGBUKWA
UNU!!
NDI IMO!!!

come on, don't b silly, dis is an mbaise affair not d whole Imo state. D catholic bishop of Okigwe diocese in Imo State is an Anambra man n heaven didn't fall, so u shd b particular wit ur statement now. Am against dem too

It's God's choosing, after all no Black man has been a pope and black nation has not revolted against it.

Abagworo:

They will gladly accept a Yoruba man. That is the reality. They will accept an Ngwa man or an Ijaw man but not that particular man from that particular zone.

think you are giving some clue there

dplomaticVal: Pls
What
Do
They
Stand
To
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If
Their
Fellow
Easterner
Is
Appointed

Bishop



IHERE MEGBUKWA
UNU!!
NDI IMO!!!

Point of correction, Ahiara people of Mbaise. Its never an Imo state agenda.
Unfortunately, the indigens of that particular locality have openly washed their hands off these protests.

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Most of you are ignorant of this issue and should 1st of all study the entire situation before commenting. You cannot have a particular session imposing themselves on others for nearly 80years and claiming justice. This might be the beginning of the end of Catholicism in the Southern Igbo area if the issue is not handled with care. [quote]

End of catholicism ko begining of catholicism ni.This mbaise catholics are a disgrace to igboland,catholicism and christianity as a whole.

Imagine people who call themselves priests engaging in this shameful protest.

These shameful priests would be excommunicated and the ahiara diocese closed and merged with owerri.The people can go ahead and form their mbaise catholic church and even make an mbaise man pope.

I have heard the saying if an mbaise man and a snake should enter your house you should first kill the mbaise man before you kill the snake but I never took it serious until now.

Enegod: what is wrong with mbaise ppl?!

village brought up mbaise people!

Dis con3 is truely finished. Imagine even their igbo brother 4rom a neighboring community is rejected. What if he is from d north or west? Dis guys hav no right even in christendom 2 blame d Jews for crucifying Jesus Christ because dey dis guys wuda done worst

An Imo State man that used to be a devout Catholic abandoned the Catholic simply because a late Anambra State priest was put on the road to sainthood. How could they make an Anambra State person a saint? Cardinal Arinze must have recommended the late Tansi.

Okoro2015:

God bless you good brother.
Pope's order ko papal order ni. Does pope know Okpaleke. Sorry Mbaise people are wiser. They are not by any means disobeying the pope. But they are exposing those who are using his name to perpetuate injustice.

Whether politics or not, if you don't like what has been done, go to Rome and influence the pope. Going by your argument, the pope was influenced. And so what? He made his selection already, and who are you, an unrighteous layman who is evidently wallowing in unrighteousness, to challenge the edict of the pope? The best you can do under the circumstance, is to wait for the new bishop to retire, and then go visit Rome for the purposes of influencing the pope. There are no two ways about that.

The catholic church is infallible and the Pope is the vicar of Christ. He has the final say. I am from IMO but I think mbaise people should rethink before the bring curse upon themselves.
let me ask why didn't they elect a Roman to become a Pope?.
why did Paul and Barnabas travel from their own home to other countries all in the name of spreading the good news?
the bottomline is that he has been ordained as a Bishop.
mbaise people please accept and embrace peace.

i now believe in the old popular saying.'' onye mbaise bata be gi agwo bata, gi buru uzo gbuo onye mbaise'' meaning if mbaise person enter your house '& snake enter too, first kill mbaise person before snake. Too bad for una, no be most say una go be a catholic.

That is a lie the politrickians planted to justify their agenda. No such petition wxists. Mbaise priests knew that their bishop had submitted a list to vatican as statutorily required of any serving bishop.

While they knew where those names are drawn from, how were they supposed ro know the chosen one until announced by Rome. Question is "who smuggled in the name Okpaleke and made him favorite ro be announced"?

This appointment has a lot of import. That the over 500 Mbaise priests are not qualified to be bishop either in their diocese or elsewhere. We know the pope wouldn't remotely have this kind of opinion.

The actors know themselves and have been apologizing in secret. They should come out in the open. But they'll rather denigrate a whole clan than to say the truth.

All you who are calling the name of God here, I hope you will willfully accept it when an enemy thwarts your destiny.

Peace!

The greatest threat to Igboland is the glaring culture of disunity amongst Ndigbo.

Having Eze and Igwe on all the streets of Igboland will not save us from this obnoxious culture of self - hatred.
Why is it near impossibility for us to view and accept fellow Ndigbo as part of our brotherhood, irrespective of whether one is from Ezza or Isiala-Ngwa?

Mbaise has never been known for anything good...seriously!.They should be relocated to Malawi

dplomaticVal: Pls
What
Do
They
Stand
To
Loose
If
Their
Fellow
Easterner
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Appointed

Bishop



IHERE MEGBUKWA
UNU!!
NDI IMO!!!

Ndi mbaise ..... Oburo Ndi Imo nile

Christians at it again, wonder what the pope is going to do lmao, if he retracts that means this religion is as fake as a $300 note bill ...Christianity to the dog: racism, tribalism and bigotry...me like it ...less Christians in Africa

Ndi a na ete umuigbo unyi n'ihu