2015-02-06 10:08:00

Monsignor Chidi Denis Isizoh appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Onitsha


Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Chidi Denis Isizoh as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria, assigning him as the titular Bishop of Legia.

The Bishop-elect Monsignor Chidi Denis Isizoh has been up to the time of his appointment an official of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican. He is originally a member of clergy in Archdiocese of Onitsha,

Bishop-elect Isizoh was born on 24 January 1956 in the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Anambra State. He attended primary schools at St. Raphael's Awkuzu and St. Vincent's, Ogbunike between 1964-1967/1970  with an interruption in schooling due to the Nigerian civil war also known as the Biafran War of 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970.

Monsignor Isizoh entered the minor seminary “All Hallows” between 1971 and 1976. Later he went to the major seminary for  studies in philosophy at Bigard Memorial Seminary in Ikot Ekpene between 1977 and 1981. He studied Theology at Bigard Memorial Seminary in Enugu from 1981 to 1985 and was ordained a priest on 28 September 1985 for the Archdiocese of Onitsha.

After ordination he held pastoral offices at the All Hallows minor seminary of Onitsha; as parochial vicar at SS. John and Paul Parish Awada and as chaplain of several institutes and schools in Onitsha. In 1989 he was secretary and assistant to Cardinal Francis Arinze who was then the Ordinary of Onitsha Archdiocese.

Monsignor Isizoh later studied Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He holds a doctorate in Biblical theology from the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome, Italy.

He has been an official of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 1995.

(e-mail: engafrica@vatiradio.va)








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