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1957 Gordon Joseph Gray, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, invited the young Priests of the archdiocese to volunteer for temporary service on the Missions. “If we are generous in sharing our priests with others in greater need the Holy Spirit will always provide enough vocations for our own Archdiocese.” When you share your gifts you double your talents.
PRIESTS FROM OUR ARCHDIOCESE WHO HAVE WORKED IN NIGERIA following a celebration of Mass in Thanksgiving in Gillis Archdiocesan Centre, Edinburgh with Bishop John Moore newly appointed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Bauchi 1996.
1998: Mgr Foley, Bishop John
Moore, Archbishop O’Brien, Canon John McAllister
Fr A. Mitchell, Fr John Callaghan, Mgr. A. McNally, Fr. Leo Glancy, Mgr Simpson,
Canon John Agnew, Fr Aidan Canon, Fr Pat Clarke, Urseline Sisters of Jesus-
Brigid, Mary and Patricia and Nigerian Fathers at Mass of Thanksgiving, Gillis
Centre, Edinburgh.
MONSIGNOR DANIEL SIMPSON who served in Nigeria 1957 – 1995
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In October 1983 Bishop Ganaka came to Edinburgh to celebrate a great Mass of Thanksgiving in Ingliston to mark 25 years of archdiocesan missionary service since 1957. He thanked Cardinal Gray for adopting Bauchi in its infancy and took over the full responsibility for the financing and staffing of the Church in Bauchi in the confident hope that we will continue to live as brothers and sisters in Christ, helping one another. Fr Simpson and Fr Cannon remained in Jos diocese serving under Bishop Ganaka.
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FR LEO GLANCY 1968-75 NOVITIATE, OUR LADY OF FATIMA, KURU
NIGERIA 1966 - 1970
FRIDAY 14TH JANUARY 1966 military coup ‘Operation Damisa’ leading
political and military figures, including Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello,
Sardauna of Sokoto, and Chief Samuel Akintola premier of the Western region
were mercilessly killed. There were riots in the North in June. The parishes
in Bauchi and Gombe suffered terribly.
Fr Simpson, Fr McCann and Fr Agnew were joined by Fr Patrick Clarke in 1967
and Fr Leo Glancy in 1968. The civil war taking place far away from Bauchi
continued until 1970. Village life in the north continued much as before.
There was time and opportunity to reach out to the rural areas . With the
transport of goods becoming very difficult, we had to search for building
materials and supplies to build churches, the clinic and hostels in Gambar
and Bauchi, and offer whatever help we could. Father’s Mass box and
medicine chest were in daily use. His transport often doubled as an ambulance.
Fr Leo Glancy Gambar
1968. “There were 26 different languages spoken in this area with Hausa
the common language of the market place. I depended on Bernard Benu to translate
for me. He introduced me to a man who had been on the road for two days, who
said: “Father, we have heard of all that you are doing to help the people
and we would like to have our children baptised. Please come.” Our reply
to such requests was always the same: “Hold a meeting. Choose a good
person from the village who can read. Build a round house where the children
can meet to learn catechism. Tell me when you are ready and I will come.”
1980 Fr Leo visited Bauchi, and noted in his
diary:
AZARE Fr`Patrick Clarke is building a church.
BAUCHI Fr Danny Simpson . There are 7028 names in the Baptismal register.
The church was full at both Masses. Danny went down to Tafawa Balewa to the
new church. There will soon be a Nigerian Priest stationed there. The Holy
Childhood Sisters have a convent near the church in Bauchi. They teach in
the Secondary School and in the Barracks. The hospital used to have only one
doctor. Now there are 50 doctors with new buildings and specialists in the
various fields of medicine. The SVDP Shelter is doing well. It was built with
help from SCIAF to provide for the needs of those who brought their sick into
the hospital and stayed to look after them. There is a new Catholic church
in the army barracks built for the soldiers. It was opened on Sunday.There
were over 1000 people present. A new church is\planned for the railway end
of the town.
BILLIRI There are over 2000 in the Bapismal register. Fr`Aidan Cannon speaks
of Popandi Kaltungo as the growth area.
FR WILLIAM BRANDON, SMA is now parish priest in Popandi. In April 2004 St
John’s, Popandi, the first new church in the diocese of Bauchi, was
opened. Bishop John Moore thanked the priests and people from Edinburgh, and
the Pontifical Mission Societies for their continued help and support to Bauchi
GOMBE was crowded. The church I built in 1970 is now the sanctuary with a huge extension built out from there. There are fans installed in the roof. I met 7 seminarians from Bauchi, one of whom is in the major seminary….very encouraging.
GAMBAR: Fr Davou Michael Bwan Fom, ordained
19/4/1980 has been appointed to Gambar for 3 months. There are 6821 names
in the Baptismal register. I counted 112 children baptised in danger of death
in the clinic, many of whom have died and are buried nearby. In my diary I
record: “two children died last night.”
In Jos diocese there are 21 Nigerian Priests and 41 Others; one Augustinian
Brother; 16 Nigerian Sisters and 18 Others.
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