Diocese of Ogoja
| Diocese of Ogoja | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Nigeria |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Calabar |
| Diocesan bishop | Donatus Edet Akpan |
| founding | 1938 |
| surface | 12,557 km² |
| Parishes | 61 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Residents | 2,022,000 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Catholics | 901.413 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
| proportion of | 44.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 100 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Religious priest | 3 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 8,752 |
| Friars | 3 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Religious sisters | 50 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. Benedict's Cathedral |
The Bistum Ogoja ( lat. : Dioecesis Ogogiaensis ) is in Nigeria preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Ogoja .
history
The diocese of Ogoja was on March 13, 1938 by Pope Pius XI. established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Prefecture of Calabar as Apostolic Prefecture of Ogoja . On January 1, 1955, the Apostolic Prefecture of Ogoja by Pope Pius XII. with the Apostolic Constitution Apostolicum raised to the diocese. The Diocese of Ogoja announced on March 1, 1973 parts of its territory to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution dead Inter erected Diocese of Abakaliki from.
The diocese of Ogoja is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Calabar as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Ogoja
- Patrick Joseph Whitney SPS , 1938-1939
- Thomas McGettrick SPS, 1939–1955
Bishops of Ogoja
- Thomas McGettrick SPS, 1955–1973, then Bishop of Abakaliki
- Joseph Edra Ukpo , 1973–2003, then Archbishop of Calabar
- John Ebebe Ayah , 2006–2014, then Bishop of Uyo
- Donatus Edet Akpan , since 2017