Archbishop, Province of the Niger, Most Reverend Alexander Ibezim has Ordaine twenty deacons at the Chapel Of Redemption, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that
the Trinity Dioconate Ordination
of the Anglican Diocese of Awka attracted
other bishops, members of the clergy and legal team of the diocese led by the Chancellor, Justice OJ Okeke in attendance.
The ordinands were administered with different oaths such oaths of allegiance to God, submission to synod and oaths of canonical obedience and were exposed to the ministry of deacons in the church of Christ.
Speaking shortly after their ordination, Archbishop Ibezim explained that all the ordained have undergone the requisite training and have been chosen by God to expand his kingdom.
Ibezim pointed them to the challenges and difficulties in spreading the gospel and charged them not to relent but to depend on God who called them as he would strengthen for his service.
In a sermon, Venerable Chris Ogbodo who spoke on the topic “On This Rock, I Will Build My Church” explained that priests are vehicles for the accomplished of God’s purpose for the church and asked the newly ordained to work according to Christ percepts in order to fulfill his purpose in their life time.
For the President of the women’s ministry in the diocese and in the Province of the Niger, Dr. Mrs Martha Ibezim, the wives of the newly ordained were also called alongside their husbands and therefore should be steadfast in prayers, support the ministry of their husbands be role models to other women.
The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Carol Umeobi in her address said that God has used Most Rev. Ibezim to expand his kingdom through soul winning and in the transformation of Awka Diocese.
In their seperate speeches, the newly ordained deacons, Rev. Nwabunwanne Mekoowulu, Chukwuka Izunwanne and Onyinyechukwu Ezueh promised to spread undiluted gospel of Christ and to bring men back to God.
Archbishop Ibezim later prefered Reverends Ezechukwu Mmaduaburochukwu; Sunny David Okechukwu and Augustine Okonji as Canons of the Cathedral while special thanksgiving was the highlight of the ordination service.
