User:FR. LINUS HUABO T.

Revd. Fr. Linus Huabo is a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Makurdi. He was born on the feast of the Patron Saint for Priest, St. John Baptist Mary Vianney on 4th August, 1967. He hails from Mbagwa, in Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria.

He attended Saint Augustine Major Seminary Jos, Makurdi Campus which is now Saint Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary, Makurdi in 1986 where he studied Philosophy. He then proceeded to Saint Augustine’s Major Seminary Jos, where he studied Theology and obtained a Bachelor of Theology Degree awarded by Urbanian University Rome in 1995.

Revd. Fr. Linus was ordained a Catholic Priest along with 19 others on 1st July, 1995 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral Makurdi by the Bishop of Makurdi Diocese, Most Revd. Athanasius Usuh.

He taught at St. James Junior Seminary, Yandev from 1995 and was appointed as the Rector of the Seminary to succeed his predecessor, spiritual father and mentor, Very Revd. Fr. Godwin Udaa on 15th September 2001, a position he held until his transfer on 15th September, 2006 to St. Peter’s Secondary School Vandeikya where he is currently serving as Principal.

Fr. Linus was admitted in the Benue State University Makurdi where he studied Education and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) in 1999.

He also studied Education Management and Administration and obtained a Masters Degree in Education (MED) at the Benue State University in 2005.

He lectures with the Faculty of Education, Benue State University on part time basis under the Sandwich Programme. He is also the Deputy Director Catholic Education Services, Makurdi Diocese. He is the Chaplain of the Holy Family Society of Adikpo Deanery.

During the celebration of the Year of Priest in 2010 in Nigeria, he was chosen among the twenty Priests who represented Makurdi Diocese at the final ceremonies at the National level in Onitsha where he witnessed the ordination of twenty Priests to mark a special year in Nigeria for Priest.

Recall that the twenty Priests who were selected from each of the Dioceses in Nigeria to attend the Special year for Priest celebration and the twenty Priests who were ordained at the occasion is as significant as they marked their fifteenth anniversary, where twenty of them were ordained in 1995 in Makurdi Diocese. The Special year for Priest was indeed a special year for the 1995 set.

He is the Author of a book titled “Symbols of Salvation”, a book he wrote to mark his 15th year in the Priesthood.