• As Bishop Nwokolo Marks Anniversary
Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba has described the All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha venue where Diocese on the Niger, hosted all delegates that came for the Church’s Standing Committee, as historic. He recalled the advent of the gospel to Igboland in 1857, led by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who later became a Bishop in 1864 and Onitsha had remained head of the mission.
Ndukuba said: “The vision to build a Cathedral in Onitsha was that of Bishop Joseph Sydney Hill’s, who was consecrated Bishop in 1893 to succeed Bishop Crowther. The decision was taken when he visited Onitsha after his consecration in 1893. However, he was struck by a sudden illness, which resulted in his death on January 5 1894 and his wife on the following day, January 6, 1894. With Bishop Hill’s death, everything about the proposed Cathedral was suspended. However, relations and friends deposited the caged structure of Bishop Hil