{"id":3334,"date":"2021-11-17T14:04:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2021-11-17T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:04:33","slug":"karonga-diocese-has-one-new-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/karonga-diocese-has-one-new-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Karonga Diocese Has One New Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Benjamin Msowoya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka of the Diocese of Karonga on Saturday ordained Deacon Erick Nyondo to priesthood during a solemn Eucharistic celebration which took place at St Joseph the Worker Cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The celebration attracted Catholic faithful and people of goodwill from within and outside the diocese. Following his ordination, Father Erick Nyondo brings the number of Diocesan Priests to twenty. Father Erick Nyondo will begin his priestly ministry as a Curate at St Ignatius Parish (Nthalire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bishop Mtumbuka laying hands on Deacon Erick Nyondo as part of the ordination rite<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During the same celebration, the Bishop admitted Mr Benedict Nyondo, of Immaculate Heart of Mary (Chisankhwa) Parish, to the Ministry of Reader (Lector), on his journey to becoming a Permanent Deacon next year. This is the first of the two ministries one has to receive on the journey to receiving the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Mr Nyondo completes this journey in July, 2022, and will become the first ever Permanent Deacon in Malawi.During the same event, Bishop Mtumbuka also blessed the cassock of Novice Jeremias Villalba of the Society of St Elijah (a Missionary Society that complements well the Diocese\u2019s Ad Gentes missionary activities) and are working in Chisenga in the Diocese of Karonga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Father Erick Nyondo: Newly ordained priest distributing Holy Communion <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Bishop
Bishop Mtumbuka blessing Jeremias and his official religious attire as Fr Federico (standing) who is Father Superior of the Society of St Elijah in the Diocese looks on <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Benedict
Benedict Nyondo with his wife -Martha (his right), Bishop Mtumbuka (his left) and one of his sons \u2013 Pius (his far left)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Benjamin Msowoya Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka of the Diocese of Karonga on Saturday ordained Deacon Erick Nyondo to priesthood during a solemn Eucharistic celebration which took place at St Joseph the Worker Cathedral. The celebration attracted Catholic faithful and people of goodwill from within and outside the diocese. Following his ordination, Father Erick Nyondo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":53,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[60,131],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karonga-diocese","tag-bishop-martin-mtumbuka","tag-karonga-diocese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}