Awhum Trappist Abbey
The Trappist Abbey Awhum (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Monte Calvario ; English Our Lady of Mount Calvary Abbey ) has been a Nigerian monastery of the Trappists in Enugu , Diocese of Enugu , since 1978 .
history
Anselm Abraham Ojefua (1910-1988), of the Order in 1953 Knights of Saint Mulumba had been launched, founded in 1970 in the northwest of Enugu, with the support of the local bishop Godfrey Okoye , the Holy Ghost was the monastery of Our Lady of Mount Calvary ( "Our love Frau vom Kalvarienberg ”), which was incorporated into the Cistercian order of the Strict Observance ( Trappist ) in 1978 and made a priory in 1981 and an abbey in 2006 . The immediate superior is (as for the Nigerian Trappist monastery Illah ) the Trappist Genesee Abbey .
Superiors, priors and abbots
- Mark Ulogu (1978-1981)
- Paul Usulor (1981–1985)
- Anthony Onuoha (1985-1989, 1994-2000)
- Cyprian Doghudje (1989–1994, 2006–2011)
- Bertran Oko (2000-2006)
- Timothy Kelly (2011)
literature
- Francis Olisa Awogu, Anselm Abraham Ojefua, priest and monk. A steward of creation , Onitsha, Africana-Fep Publishers, 1992.