Bishop Frederick Drandua - TUALU

asic socio-christian units besides the family inorder to bring christian families
close together 55 .
Madira Peter counts the establishment of “small christian communities” (Enyati)
in Arua Diocese, among the first achievements of Bishop Drandua because it
helped many families to co-operate and work together 56 .
Bishop Drandua went ahead to establish new parishes as Pegorari Roberto, a
Comboni Missionary working in Arua notes:
“Many new Parishes 57 ”.
By the time Drandua became a Bishop in August 1986, Arua Diocese had thirty
one established Parishes. He then proceeded to establish new ones in order to
bring pastoral services closer to the people. He erected Panyimur and Oluko
Catholic Parishes both in the year 1987 58 . He then continued to open five others
according to the needs. These included Oleba Parish (1990), Vurra Parish (1998),
Micu (1999), Obi (2000), and Djaipi (2001) 59 .
Msgr. Pierino Madrwa, had this to say:
The policy was that the Parishes were to be as near to the
people as possible 60 .
He continued to observe:
This is very reasonable because, the nearer the Parishes,
the better they are run. This is very indicative of his
pastoral concern 61 .
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