Diocese of Ahiara
Ahiaran(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ahiara, Nigeria
The Diocese of Ahiara is a Latin rite diocese in the Mbaise region of Imo State, Nigeria, erected in 1987 from the Diocese of Owerri and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Owerri. Simeon Okezuo Nwobi was appointed its bishop in May 2024 after a prolonged leadership dispute.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 November 1987
- Latin
- Ahiaran(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000614
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 401,506
- Population
- 510,623
- Catholic share
- 78.6%
- Priests
- 184
- Catholics per priest
- 2,182
- Extent
- 425 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 945
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Mater Ecclesiae Cathedral stands in Ahiara, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Owerri
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Owerri.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of OwerriOwerri
- Diocese of AbaAba
- Diocese of OkigweOkigwe
- Diocese of OrluOrlu
- Diocese of UmuahiaUmuahia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Situated at Ahiara in the Mbaise region of Imo State, Nigeria, this Latin Church diocese (Latin: Ahiaran(a)) serves as a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Owerri.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.M.B. 205, Ogbe, Ahiara, Ahiara Mbaise L.G.A., Imo State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0810]15.93.847
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].