{"id":13927,"date":"2015-04-27T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:03:40","slug":"owerri-anglican-diocese-boils-again-congregation-locks-out-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13927","title":{"rendered":"Owerri Anglican Diocese Boils Again, Congregation Locks Out Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=13931\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rev.-fr.-vestment.jpg\" alt=\"rev. fr. vestment\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rev.-fr.-vestment.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rev.-fr.-vestment-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJust as the crisis rocking St Marks Anglican Church, Orogwe, Owerri, West LGA, Imo State has remained unresolved till date, another inferno is now engulfing St Peters Anglican church, Irete in the same Diocese.<br \/>\nA source  from the church which pleaded for anonymity said  the crisis climaxed last Sunday 19th April when a section of the congregation decided to lock out  the vicar incharge Rev Kenneth Chikere and  his curate Rev Tim Ashama on account  of long bottled  up  anger which bordered  on greed, embezzlement and regular cursing  of the congregation.<br \/>\nThe source said that although the plan to lock up the church leaked at the planning stage, the Bishop Cyril Okorocha&#8217;s intervention could not stop the aggrieved church members as they shunned the Bishop invitation for dialogue.<br \/>\nOne  of the aggrieved member of the church  told  this paper that the target of the exercise was Rev Chikere, a native of Uratta  in Owerri North LGA recalling that the said Priest had similar  history in his last station Ohaohia Mbieri.<br \/>\nThe worried member said the sending of the clerical synod secretary to the church last Sunday to mediate is just to stop the flame because according to him, \u201cthe fire is still smoldering\u201d.<br \/>\nHowever, some Priests who spoke to Trumpeta on the crisis doubted the involvement of Rev Chikere in what they called dirty deals of greed, embezzlement and arrogance adding that if anything the Rev Chikere has enough to eat.<br \/>\nIn another development, of feelers from St Marks Anglican church, Orogwe is anything to go by, the church community may embark upon an action which may not be palatable because of the absence of a resident Priest.<br \/>\nA concerned church member who wondered why Bishop Okorocha does not want to post  them a resident Priest since the last Priest and his curate were sacked, said the church community is tired of remaining, as he put it, \u201cPriestless\u201d and warned  that the present storm  that is gathering  may  be allowed to burst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the crisis rocking St Marks Anglican Church, Orogwe, Owerri, West LGA, Imo State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" 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