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Archbishop John Kwao Amuzu Aggey 1965.07.06 – 1972.03.13 Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie 1973.04.13 – 2012.05.25 ( Cardinal in 2003) Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins since 2012.05.25
The latest Archbishop to be installed at the cathedral is Alfred Adewale Martins, who is incumbent since 2012. [ 5 ] By year-end 2016, the archdiocese counted 3,274,000 baptized out of a total population of 12,276,000 which corresponds to 26.7% of the total.
The pope designated the Co-Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta as the cathedral church of the new diocese and named Auxiliary Bishop Francis Hyland of Savannah-Atlanta as the first bishop. [1] [9] Hyland retired in 1961 due to poor health. On February 10, 1962, Pope John XXIII elevated the Diocese of Atlanta to the Archdiocese of Atlanta.
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343,675 Catholics (2021) in Archdiocese of Lagos (1860 as the Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey) with 184 parishes under Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins (2012). Notable people [ edit ]
October 24, 1997: Established as Diocese of Abeokuta from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lagos. The area in question covers the Abeokuta Province of the British colonial era, which now comprises the Ẹ̀gbá, Yewa (Ẹ̀gbádò), Àwórì, Ègùn and Ànàgó divisions of Ogun State, the other division in the state being Ijebu which is co-terminus with the Diocese of Ijebu-Ode.
To assist Cooke with the military diocese, the pope in 1975 appointed Bishop Joseph T. Ryan from the Archdiocese of Anchorage as a coadjutor bishop. [9] Pope John Paul II in 1979 named a retired military chaplain, Rear Admiral John O'Connor as auxiliary bishop for the military diocese. [10] In 1985, O'Connor became archbishop of New York.