With great sadness the Diocese of Camden announces the death of Father Alfred Onyutha, a priest of the Diocese of the Nebbi in Uganda, who has served in the Diocese of Camden since 2005. Father Onyutha was most recently assigned as a parochial vicar at Saint Padre Pio Parish in Vineland.
Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan will celebrate a Memorial Mass at 7 p.m. July 27 in Our Lady of Pompeii Church, 4680 Dante Ave., Vineland. The church is a worship site of Saint Padre Pio Parish.
Father Onyutha was involved in a two-car crash with another driver in Franklin Township, NJ, after 9 PM on Friday, July 16. Both drivers were killed.
On behalf of the faithful of South Jersey, Bishop Sullivan expresses his condolences to the family of Father Onyutha and to the family of the other driver who was killed.
One of 10 children, Father Onyutha was born August 14, 1959, in Uganda. He was ordained on May 26, 1990, by Bishop Frederick Drandua in the Diocese of Nebbi, Uganda.
Father Onyutha’s assignments since ordination have included:
- In the Diocese of Nebbi, four parish assignments over 15 years.
- In the Diocese of Camden, assignments at Saint Joseph Parish, Somers Point; Infant Jesus Parish, Woodbury Heights; Holy Angels Parish and Underwood Memorial Hospital, Woodbury; Holy Family Parish, Sewell; and Saint Padre Pio Parish, Vineland.
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