Father Emmanuel-Lugard Nduka was ordained into the priesthood August 24, 1999 and is a priest of the Archdiocese of Owerri in Nigeria assigned to work in the Diocese of Tulsa.
Fr. Emmanuel had served as editor of his archdiocesan newspaper, "Assumpta Press/Leader", and is taking classes in media communications and journalism at OSU and first served in the Tulsa Diocese as Associate Pastor of the Church of St. Benedict in Broken Arrow, OK from August 3, 2008 to July 2009 when he was re-assigned to be Associate Pastor of St. John The Evangelist in Stillwater, OK.
Father Emmanuel celebrated his first mass at St. John The Evangelist in Pawnee July 1, 2012.