Father has not written back yet.  I imagine he's quite busy.

If you could keep me posted.  I would like to have some masses offered.

This is an older video which also shows the church plans. Can you believe they can build this for only USD$58,000? That should be closer to $50k now, yet it is a long way off as they have precious few benefactors.



They had an episcopal visit from Bishop Paul Morgan yesterday (today in America! i.e. Sunday). I hope to post some photos of the visit soon if Fr Onuorah is able to provide some for me.

Father still hasn't e-mailed me about whether PayPal donations would get through.  As I mentioned, I looked it up and there is PayPal in Nigeria, so it would be good if he set up an account.

Thanks, Ladislaus, I'll mention it to him. I thought he would have replied to you as he always acknowledges my emails very promptly. I suspect he has seen your message and put it in the too hard basket and then forgotten about it. Anyway, thanks for your efforts, I will follow up on it.

Well, he probably knows and trusts you, whereas my stuff might have been consigned to the spam folder (can hardly blame him).

Perhaps you could ask him directly, since what's important is getting an answer to the question, which is basically whether he has PayPal and if any of us sent money to his e-mail address via PayPal, whether it would get to him.  If not, perhaps if he could get a PayPal account, it would greatly facilitate sending money to him from the US, so that people could easily send even smaller amounts.

PayPal does not work in Nigeria apparently. Here is Fr Onuorah's reply:

The issue is that PayPal does not work in Nigeria.  We have tried it before but it was not working.  They can send money through western union,  Ria, Send Waves;  These are the ones that work in Nigeria

In response to previous suggestions on this thread, Fr Onuorah has now provided PAYPAL account details for those still looking for a way to donate. Please consider the Nigerian Missions for your Lenten almsgiving:

Good morning my dear brother... Like I told you before PayPal does not work in Nigeria, that's why it has to go through someone in another country where it is working before reaching us.
Moreover, was it in Cathinfo that the PayPal account was requested before? If it is there then you can send it there.  If it was not there that it was requested but you wish to put it in Cathinfo it is okay,..
Thank you so much. 
I wish you a grace filled Lenten Season. 
God bless. 
Yours in Jesus, Mary and Joseph, 
Rev. Fr.  Joseph Onuorah.


Greetings in Our Lord Jesus Christ my dear brother...  happy first week of Lent.  I got a PayPal account of a Nigerian Traditional Catholic faithful who is living in US. I explained to her and she promised to send the money to me in Nigerian currency once any donation is sent to her PayPal account. 
Below is the PayPal account details: My PayPal account is @ChinweOparaji
Email: f_chinwefausta@outlook.com
If any donation is sent to the account for our Church building project kindly write me so that I will inform her to forward it to me immediately in Nigerian currency.  Once it reaches me I will inform you...

Thank you so much for your assistance.  
I wish you a grace filled Lenten Season.
Send my kind regards to all.
God bless. 
Yours in Jesus, Mary and Joseph, 
Rev. Fr. Joseph Onuorah. 


The PayPal account belongs to a trusted benefactor of Fr Onuorah.
Please advise him of any donations by email: onuorajoe93@gmail.com

I just saw the PayPal account information ... as it slipped past my notice (thread must have slid down out of site before I saw it).

That's very helpful.  Perhaps we can keep this thread bumped up.

I was thinking I would donate, but was wondering who ordained these men, and whether they were true Priests.
At this link:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/06/15/onitsha-catholic-diocese-sanctions-two-priests-for-disobedience/
The following article:
Onitsha Catholic Diocese Sanctions Two Priests for Disobedience
6 years ago

The Catholic Diocese of Onitsha has sanctioned two priests from the diocese for acts of insubordination.

The priests; Reverend Fathers Michael Chigbata and Joseph Onuorah were sanctioned for celebrating masses in parts of the diocese, using what they called Traditional Catholic Mass.

A press release by the Chancellor of the diocese, Very Rev Fr Prudentius Emeka Aroh which was made available to THISDAY in Awka described them as disobedient priests and called for prayers for them to change their ways.

The release said the priests abandoned their legitimately assigned pastoral duties, claiming that they had now joined a group known as Society of St Pius X(SSPX).

Aroh said, “They currently operate their illegal activities from Anaku in Ayamelum LGA and they also move about deceiving innocent Catholics that they now celebrate the Traditional Catholic Mass.

“They have neither the approval nor the permission of the Archbishop of Onitsha to celebrate any such mass or other sacrament within the Diocese of Onitsha. These two priests are living in disobedience and their faculties as priests of Onitsha Archdiocese have been withdrawn.”

The diocese advised the general public, especially all Catholics and other men and women of goodwill not to have anything to do with these two disobedient priests or others like them, saying that those who associate with them do so at their own risk, because they were working against the unity of the church.

“We request that all pray for these two disobedient priests so that the light of the holy spirit will shine on them and bring them back to the church”, the chancellor wrote.

So, these 2 "priests" (Chigbata & Onuorah) came out of the Novus Ordo. They also mention in the prior post from Matthew linked above that they have 2 other Novus Ordo "priests" that have joined them. Do you know if they have been conditionally ordained by the SSPX?

Frs. Onuorah and Chigbata were conditionally ordained by Bishop Thomas Aquinas