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Suffragan diocese Ekiti, Nigeria

Diocese of Ekiti

Ekitien(sis)

Latin Church diocese in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, erected in 1972 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Ibadan. The bishop is Felix Femi Ajakaye.

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Esri
The address the register holds for Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Ado-Ekiti, in Ekiti, Nigeria.

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Established
1972
Catholics
218,466
Priests
101
Territory
5,700 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Felix Femi Ajakaye
Born
25 May 1962
Birthplace
Ibadan

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The cathedral

Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Ado-Ekiti stands in Ekiti, 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.

History

Ado-Ekiti, in Ekiti State, Nigeria, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ekiti (Latin: Ekitien(sis)), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Ibadan.