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Onaiyekan, on April 16, 1995. Within the same year, the first
General Chapter of the Society witnessed the election of Very Rev Fr Felix Elosi, MSP as its first Superior General. The Society has held four other successful General Chapters in 2001, 2007, 2013 and 2019 and an extraordinary Chapter in 2008. These General Chapters produced Very Rev Fr Hyacinth Egbebo, MSP, Very Rev Fr Anselm Umoren, MSP, Very Rev Fr Victor Onwukeme, MSP, and Very Rev Fr Callistus Isara, MSP, as Superiors General respectively. Three members of the Society are now bishops in Nigeria: Most Rev Anthony Adaji, MSP of Idah Diocese (2007), Most Rev Hyacinth Egbebo, MSP of Bomadi Diocese (2008) and Most Rev Anselm Umoren, MSP Auxiliary Bishop of Abuja Archdiocese (2012).
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National Missionary Seminary of St Paul at its meeting in Kaduna in September 1976. The timely prophetic call of Pope Paul VI in 1969, in Kampala, Uganda for Africans to be Missionaries to themselves had created the needed momentum to make the idea a reality. For the institution to take off, Most Rev Dr Anthony Sanusi of blessed memory, the then Bishop of Ijebu Ode Diocese, donated the premises of the former St Mark’s Teacher Training College at Iperu Remo, Ogun State to be used as its first home. On Mission Sunday, October 23, 1977, the seminary was opened on its temporary site in Iperu Remo. Priests of St Patrick Society of Ireland were invited to assist in the formation program of the seminary.
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Cor. 5, 14) to “be all things to all people” (1 Cor. 9, 22). Though primary evangelisation is its central mission, the
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As at 2021, the
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The words of St Paul “we are ambassadors for Christ,” (2Cor 5, 20) is the motto and basis for the existence of the
Society. Its members take on the missionary activities to all nations in accordance with the mandate Jesus Christ gave. Like St Paul, the members are driven by the love of Christ (Cf. 2
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trained in the seminary, Fr John Osom, MSP was ordained on June 22, 1985, and eleven other members were ordained the next year. Since then, priestly ordinations have become a yearly event in the Society.
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General of Calabar Diocese, Rev Msgr Godwin Akpan (of blessed memory), became the first Rector of the Seminary (1977-1988), and later the first Acting Superior General of the Society (1988-1995).
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