Bishopric of Ondo

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Bishopric of Ondo
Basic data
Country Nigeria
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Ibadan
Diocesan bishop Jude Ayodeji Arogundade
Emeritus diocesan bishop Francis Folorunsho Clement Alonge
founding 1943
surface 15,518 km²
Parishes 45 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Residents 3,674,692 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Catholics 198,722 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
proportion of 5.4%
Diocesan priest 43 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Religious priest 15 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Catholics per priest 3,426
Friars 36 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Religious sisters 63 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Sacred Heart Cathedral
Website www.ondodiocese.org

The Bistum Ondo ( lat. : Dioecesis Ondoensis ) is in Nigeria preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Akure .

history

Pope Pius XII founded the Apostolic Vicariate Ondo - Ilorin on January 12, 1943 from cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Benin Coast .

With the Apostolic Constitution Laeto accepimus it was raised to the rank of diocese on April 18, 1950, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Lagos as a suffragan diocese and took its current name. On March 26, 1994, it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Ibadan .

It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:

Ordinaries

Vicar Apostolic of Ondo-Ilorin

Bishops of Ondo

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest Friars Religious sisters
1970 100,316 2,836,466 3.5 38 7th 31 2,639 42 41
1980 72,000 1,717,000 4.2 19th 5 14th 3,789 24 35 12
1990 112,000 2,256,000 5.0 30th 15th 15th 3,733 29 40 18th
1999 190,200 3,265,450 5.8 45 32 13 4,226 23 52 31
2000 193,430 3,385,990 5.7 45 33 12 4,298 25th 60 33
2001 196,800 3,509,700 5.6 52 40 12 3,784 24 62 33
2002 197,750 3,520,030 5.6 47 34 13 4,207 27 58 34
2003 198.343 3,530,590 5.6 47 34 13 4,220 30th 60 43
2004 198,722 3,674,692 5.4 58 43 15th 3,426 36 63 45

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