Fr. Faustinus Uchenna Anyamele, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado was born in West Africa and of the ethnic tribe of the Igbo. In 1986 at the age of 13 years old he was admitted into Mater Ecclesia Minor Seminary, where he started his Journey to the priesthood. In 1992, he graduated from St Peter Claver Minor Seminary, with a high school diploma and a diploma in Latin and was assigned for a one-year parish pastoral experience.

In 1994, he was admitted into the Claretian Institute of Philosophy, while studying for the Schoenstatt Fathers, a Congregation based in Koblenz, Germany.  In 1998, he received a B.A. in Philosophy from the Pontifical Urban University Rome, Italy. In 1999 he was admitted into a two year novitiate program, a pedagogical formation on the canon laws of the Church, the documents and constitution of the Church. In 2001 he started his theological studies at the Lateran Pontifical University in Rome, Italy. While studying and living in Rome, he worked at the Vatican Museum and at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome as a tour guide.

In 2003 he left Rome, Italy and headed to the United States of America, where he continued his theological studies and seminary formation at Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary; under the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver. In May 2006, he received a B.A. in Theology from Lateran Pontifical University in Rome, Italy, the same year he received  M..A. in Divinity from Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary Denver, Colorado.

Fr. Faustinus was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Denver on May 13^th 2006. Since his ordination, Fr. Faustinus has ministered  in numerous parishes. He is presently the canonical pastor of Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Parish in Estes Park, Colorado.

In 2014, Fr. Faustinus U. Anyamele, authored his first book titled “The Father They Wish To Have” —The True Acts of Human Fatherhood and Its Consummation—