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This is a list of provinces, dioceses, archbishops and bishops in the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, in 2021. The church has 14 Provinces in Nigeria, each with an Archbishop. Each Province is divided into dioceses; there were 161 dioceses in Nigeria, each with a bishop.
The Catholic Church in Nigeria is mainly composed of a Latin hierarchy, joined in a national Episcopal Conference of Nigeria, and a single Eastern Catholic (transnational) see, comprising: 9 Latin rite ecclesiastical provinces, each under a Metropolitan Archbishop , with a total of 44 suffragan dioceses
The Catholic Church in Nigeria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the curia in Rome, and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN). In 2022, the president of the CBCN is Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji , Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese . [ 2 ]
Ecclesiastical provinces are separate from archdioceses, and govern the archdiocese and "suffragan" dioceses. Archdioceses should not be categorised as ecclesiastical provinces, but in Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in Nigeria.
The two existing dioceses (Lagos and on the Niger) later gave birth to additional 14 dioceses. On 24 February 1979, the sixteen dioceses of Nigeria were joined in the Church of Nigeria, a newly founded province of the Anglican Communion, with Timothy O. Olufosoye, then Bishop of Ibadan, becoming its first archbishop, primate and metropolitan ...
Pages in category "Roman Catholic dioceses in Nigeria" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. ... Roman Catholic Diocese of Abakaliki;
On 17 April 1951, at the inauguration of the Province of West Africa, Leslie Vining was elected and presented as the first Archbishop of the new Province. In 1952, he divided Lagos diocese into four: Lagos, Ibadan, Ondo-Benin and Northern Nigeria; and the Diocese on the Niger into two parts — on the Niger and Niger Delta. He died at sea in ...
Diocese of Šibenik; the province also comprises the Diocese of Kotor, which is in and covers Montenegro and hence belongs to the episcopal conference of Saints Cyril and Method (Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) Ecclesiastical Province of Zagreb (Latin and Eastern Churches) Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zagreb (Roman Catholic)