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Suffragan diocese Bauchi, Nigeria

Diocese of Bauchi

Bauchian(us)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Bauchi is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in northern Nigeria, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1996 and raised to a diocese in 2003. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jos.

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Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, in Bauchi, Nigeria.

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Established
2003
Catholics
79,000
Priests
41
Territory
64,605 km²

Parishes and churches

25 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Hilary Nanman Dachelem, C.M.F.

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist stands in Bauchi, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

In Northern Nigeria, the Latin Church maintains the Diocese of Bauchi (Latin: Bauchian(us)), a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Jos that nonetheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The Cathedral of St. John Evangelist stands in the episcopal see of Bauchi, in Bauchi State.

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