At Last Fr.Edet Who Resigned From Catholic Church Starts His Own Church
Rev.Fr.Patrick Edet who recently resigned from the Catholic Church in Nigeria has started his own church in Uyo,Akwa Ibom state. At Last Fr.Edet Who Resigned From Catholic Church Starts His Own Church
Rev.Fr.Edet had issues with the Catholic authority for running Grace Family Outreach,his independent ministry in a Pentecostal way.This made him quit the Catholic Church on August 2nd as he made it known in a live radio program on radio. At Last Fr.Edet Who Resigned From Catholic Church Starts His Own Church
He launched a program on September 1 tagged “mega revival” in Uyo under the Umbrella of his outreach.
PREMIUM TIMES found out, some Catholic members have been attending the programme, even though the Catholic Bishop of Uyo Diocese, John Ayah, had earlier warned that any Catholic member who attends his programme or identifies with him (Mr Edet) in any way “does so at the risk of his or her Catholic faith and membership.”
His 8th day program tagged “The Great Awakening”, is currently holding in a city hall and has been attracting large crowds daily.
He has also erected billboards at strategic locations within the city to announce the programme which is his first major public outing since he quit the Catholic Church in August.
A member of the outreach, who gave his name simply as Chukwuemeka, told PREMIUM TIMES on telephone that Mr. Edet would be holding subsequent meetings in the city hall.
He didn’t, however, say how often the meetings would take place. At Last Fr.Edet Who Resigned From Catholic Church Starts His Own Church
On Saturday, during the second day of the church programme, several people defied the heavy rainfall to attend his programme.
