Diocese of Umuahia

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Diocese of Umuahia
Basic data
Country Nigeria
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Owerri
Diocesan bishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji
Auxiliary bishop Michael Kalu Ukpong
Vicar General Gabriel Kalu
founding 1958
surface 2,460 km²
Parishes 67 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 1,234,470 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 241,233 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 19.5%
Diocesan priest 151 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 20 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 1,411
Friars 6 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 151 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Mater Dei Cathedral
Website umuahiadiocese.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Umuahia ( Latin Dioecesis Umuahiana , English Diocese of Umuahia ) is in Nigeria situated Roman Catholic Diocese with headquarters in Umuahia .

history

The diocese of Umuahia was founded on June 23, 1958 by Pope Pius XII. Established with the Apostolic Constitution Sollicite usque from cessions of territory of the Diocese of Owerri and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Onitsha as a suffragan . On January 24, 1981, the Diocese of Umuahia gave parts of its territory to the establishment of the Apostolic Constitution Quandoquidem Sanctissima from the Diocese of Okigwe . Another area assignment was made on 2 April 1990 founding of the Apostolic Constitution quidem Praeteritis erected Diocese of Aba . The diocese of Umuahia was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Owerri as a suffragan on March 26, 1994.

Bishops of Umuahia

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pius XII: Const. Apost. Sollicite usque , AAS 51 (1959), n.4, pp. 216f.
  2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II : Const. Apost. Quandoquidem Sanctissima , AAS 73 (1981), n.5, p. 289f.
  3. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Praeteritis quidem , AAS 82 (1990), n.8, p. 754f.