Bodija Welcomes One of Her Illustrious Sons

The event began with a competitive and highly entertaining football match by the seminarians and was followed by a melodious vespers in the historic chapel of Saints Peter and Paul Seminary, where Bishop Anselm once graced as a student. The evening jubilation was culminated with the social night of entertainment in honour of the bishop.

SSPP Bodija

The joy of every parent is to see her child excel and become great. Mother Bodija is an advocate of this excellence and adorns her Sons who continue to portray the mark of excellence which she represents. This was the joy expressed by the Seminary of Saints Peter and Paul as she welcomed yet another of her illustrous alumnus Most Rev Anselm Pendo Lawani, who on the 2nd of Febuary, 2024 was consecrated as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ilorin, Nigeria. Until his appointment and consecration, Bishop Anselm was the Diocesan Administrator of the Diocese of Ilorin following the death of Bishop Paul Olawoore in January of 2022. 
    The event began with a competitive and highly entertaining football match by the seminarians and was followed by a melodious vespers in the historic chapel of Saints Peter and Paul Seminary, where Bishop Anselm once graced as a student. The evening jubilation was culminated with the social night of entertainment in honour of the bishop.
    The high-point of the grand welcoming of the newest proprietor of the seminary, was the administering of the rite of candidacy to the seminarians of the first year theology; where thirty-two (32) seminarians from different dioceses in Nigeria were admitted as candidates for the Catholic priesthood by His Lordship, Most Rev Anselm Pendo Lawani on behalf of the Bishops of the region. In his homily, he urged the intending candidates to look up to Jesus who was the paradigm to which their lives must be modeled after. Very Rev Fr Francis Adedara thanked the bishop for accepting to carry out this function on behalf of the bishops of the region and for giving Bodija a special place in his heart and assured him that he always had a home in Bodija. He concluded by commending him and the Christ’s faithful of Ilorin Diocese into the hands of God.
 

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