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ABSTRACT
It is quite unfortunate that the Igbo noble institution has not received fair treatment from many scholars of African Traditional Religion. So, it has been the subject of wrong labelling, caricature, ridicule and disdain. The worst part of it is complete misunderstanding, miss-interpretation and miss-representation or wrong labelling which is rightly considered as serious obstacles to positive picture of the institution in African Religion. Igbo traditional priests have been labelled fetish-priests, witch doctors, medicine men, sorcerers, magicians, juju-men, devilish priests and so on. The majority of Christians and many others in various religious sects regard them as the promoters of idolatrous worship. In the whole world, moreover, this type of misconception has caused a negative attitude to the study and complete disdain for African traditional priesthood. Hence, this project intends to compare the African priesthood with that of the Catholic priesthood and to show that the catholic priesthood to a great extend is not in any way different from the Igbo priesthood.
