Nigerian Priest Fired For Secretly Marrying Two Wives

According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, only unmarried men are ordained into the priesthood and they are to swear an oath of celibacy.

The long kept secret was revealed by one of the wives about three weeks ago, as the other wife was reported dead.

The Archbishop of Kaduna Catholic Diocese, Bishop Ndagoso Manoso, confirmed the report to Sunday Sun, saying that the woman confronted him with a baby said to belong to Father Zuni.

Bishop Manoso further stated that his office carried out a thorough investigation before the firing the priest.

“It is true that he had affairs with two women and they both had children for him, but one of the women is late already. We are not God, we did not know on time until now that he was having affairs with two women,” Bishop Manoso said.

“The church said the priest has to go because the church doesn’t allow priests to marry. So he had to go and look after his children and his matrimonial home. By December he will be 30 years in the priesthood, and he is now 54 years old, so at this age what can he do with his life?

“Nobody can employ him now. He spent seven years in the seminary and 30 years in the priesthood, and that is 37 years, so what can he do with his life at 54? The church too is going through a lot of trauma, so we need everybody’s prayers for us to put this incident behind us.”