MOORESVILLE — St. Therese Church recently welcomed Father Paul Asoh, with the Missionary Society of St. Paul of Nigeria, to the parish.
The Nigerian priest was ordained in 2002, and served in the Diocese of Kano, Nigeria, before being assigned to the Missionary Society of St. Paul’s Formation House/Seminary from 2003 to 2006.
He completed a course in Religious Formation Ministry in Dublin, Ireland, from between 2006 to 2007, and a Masters in Peace studies and International Relations at the Hekima Jesuit College of the Catholic University of East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.
He also worked in the St. Patrick’s Theology House in Nairobi from 2007 to 2010 with the St. Patrick’s Society Seminarians.
In 2010 he was reassigned back to Nigeria as assistant director of formation in the Missionary Society of St. Paul Formation House, Iperu-Remo, Nigeria, until June. During this period, he was also chaplain of the Federal Government Girls College in Sagamu, Nigeria, and director of St. Paul’s Retreat and Renewal Center in Iperu-Remo.
— Lisa Cash