Old Catholic Church now in Nigeria
The news about the pioneer Nigerian Police Catholic chaplain is not new again even though some people have not really heard about it in detail. The Old Catholic and Apostolic church had been in existence even before the then Rev Fr. Fagbohun of Ekiti Catholic diocese joined the church which the Catholic Diocese of Ekiti really went against. He states that The formal separation occurred over the issue of Papal’s universal authority. It started in The Netherlands in 1724, creating the first Old Catholic Church. Fr. Fagbohun joined the religion in the year 2014 when he was being made the first Bishop in Nigeria and who in turn had been ordaining young ones so as to add to the number of the clergy in the country. It is observed that most of the people ordained are those who had been trained in the Roman Catholic Seminaries, who by chance could not make it to the Roman Catholic priesthood. The aim of the Old Catholic and Apostolic Church is totally against the aim of the Roman Cathol
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