Archdiocese of Jos
Iosen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Jos, Nigeria
The Archdiocese of Jos is a Latin rite metropolitan see in Plateau State, Nigeria, established as a prefecture in 1934 and raised to an archdiocese in 1994. Its cathedral is Our Lady of Fatima in Jos, and it has been led since 2020 by Archbishop Matthew Ishaya Audu.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 March 1994
- Latin
- Iosen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Fatima
- Annuario code
- 001001754
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 424,359
- Priests
- 138
- Catholics per priest
- 3,075
- Extent
- 6,769 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 63
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
- Archbishop
- Matthew Ishaya Audu
- Born
- 7 June 1959
- Birthplace
- Tudu Uku
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
Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral stands in Jos, 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 Jos
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BauchiBauchi
- Diocese of JalingoJalingo
- Diocese of MaiduguriMaiduguri
- Diocese of PankshinPankshin
- Diocese of ShendamShendam
- Diocese of WukariWukari
- Diocese of YolaYola
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Secretariat, P.O. Box 494, 20 Joseph D. Gomwalk Road, Riyom Drive, 930001 Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0803]63.17.398
- [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].