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Opening of 2008/2009 Academic and Formation Year by His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Augustine Ukwuoma, Bishop of Orlu Diocese. This event also featured the official reception of the newly ordained bishop by the Seminary. Worthy of note is that His Lordship before now, has been a part-time lecturer in Seat of Wisdom Seminary, Owerri. He lectured Psychology. As such on this faithful date in the course of presenting gifts to students who excelled in academics the previous year, he instituted an award to the best students of psychology every year.
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From the 6th November 2008 to the 1st of December the seat of Wisdom seminary Owerri has been in a festive mood. the Seminary held her Inter-Hostel Sports Competition. It was moments of joy fraught with competition. The event featured sporting events like football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, lawn tennis, etc. At the end of the sporting activity, Mayer Hostel Down came First position Overall and in football too.
More interesting is the fact that our sister formation house The sons of Mary Mother of Mercy Congregation participated in the tournament and came 3rd in the football competition.
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The Seat of Wisdom Seminary, as an affiliate institute of Imo State University Owerri, held her 12th Matriculation ceremony 2008/2009 academic year on Monday 8th December 2008. The number of matriculating students for the philosophy department was 123 and for the department of religious studies, 72.
The event was grace by the Vice Chancellor, Imo State University, Owerri, Professor I. C. Okonkwo, KSJ JP and other Officials of the University. The Vice Chancellor advised the students to be dedicated to their studies and promised that the relations between the two institutions will always be cordial. In his address, too, the Rector, Very Rev. Fr. Dr. John C. Iwe, advised the students to be law abiding and like the new president-elect of the United States of America, Barack Obama, be focused to the goals they set in life in order to be successful. Other features of the event include cultural dance displays and choral rendition by the seminary choir.
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On the 22nd of January, 2009, the provincial bishops who are the proprietors of our Seminary made a visit to the Seminary for the year?s Bishops/Formators meeting. The event began with the Holy Mass early that morning presided over by His Grace, Most Rev. A.J.V. Obinna, the Archbishop of Owerri. During the Mass the Archbishop thanked the Bishop emeritus of Orlu Diocese, Most Rev. Gregory Ochiagha, the former chairman, Episcopal Commission for the Seminary, for his years of service as the chairman of the seminary commission, and named Most Rev. L.I. Ugorji as the new chairman. He also welcomed the Most Rev. Augustine Ukwuoma, the newly ordained Bishop of Orlu Diocese, to this first meeting of such a cadre since his consecration as bishop. In his homily, the Archbishop emphasized the need to build an intimacy with our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Priest, like St. Paul, who we celebrate in a special way this year. Other highlights of the day were the swearing in and taking of the oath of office by seven of the new formators in the Seminary and renewal of oath by two of the formators that returned from their sabbatical leave; and finally the bishops/formators meeting proper.
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On the 27th February 2009 the seat of Wisdom Seminary family welcomed her 2006/2007 set of ordained priests for the annual "Tu es" visit. as usual the occasion featured a football match between these visiting brothers and the fourth year theologians of the house which 2 - 0 in favour of the fourth year theologians. other highlights of the day include a gala night and the presentation of gifts by these visiting priest in appreciation to seminary officials, the seminarians and the domestic staff. the occasion ended the next day with the Eucharistic celebration.
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On the 27th of February 2009 our Seminary held the inaugural meeting for the formation of the Seat of Wisdom Seminary Alumni Association. The meeting drew back to the seminary a handful of our alumni cutting across the various sets that went through our seminary beginning with the pioneer ? the 1986 set. The meeting anticipated sincere discussions with the alumni on the way forward for the association and the seminary, especially in view of the forth-coming Silver Jubilee celebration of the Seminary in 2010. We hope to establish this association on the grass root level for greater participation on diocesan basis.
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It was a graceful Saturday on the 17th day of October 2009, in the Wisdom family. This was as a result of the Seminar led by a medical practitioner, Dr. Nicholas Hobeson Jen, regarding the issue of the killer disease HIV/AIDS. According to him, the official case of AIDS was first recorded in the United States of America(1981). This narrowed down into Africa via Uganda(1983), then came into Nigeria via Lagos(1986). He also stated ways through which this killer disesase can be transmitted like sex(oral-fellatio-, anal or vaginal), childbirth and unsterilized instruments. Regarding its transmission through sex, Dr. Nicholas made it clear that the condom is not a protective measure for this virus; in the sense that the holes in the condom is about five(5) microbs each while the virus itself(HIV) is about 4.5 microbs. Thus, he emphasized that the condom was originally made for the control of childbirth, prior to the upsurge of HIV/AIDS.
After the Seminar, HIV tests were conducted for free by Dr. Nicholas for the seminarians of Seat of Wisdom Seminary who were interested in knowing their status. Also, original WAHL clippers were sold at a reduced price of N3,700.00 each for those who needed them, as barbing with a personal clipper is one of the ways to prevent the contact/contract of HIV/AIDS.
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