Diocese of Kano
Kanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kano, Nigeria
The Diocese of Kano is a Latin rite see in northern Nigeria, erected as a mission sui iuris in 1991, raised to a vicariate apostolic in 1995, and elevated to a diocese on 22 June 1999. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaduna.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 June 1999
- Latin
- Kanen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Fatima
- Annuario code
- 001001803
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 254,200
- Population
- 8,688,604
- Catholic share
- 2.9%
- Priests
- 34
- Catholics per priest
- 7,476
- Extent
- 48,400 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.3
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
- John Namanzah Niyiring
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
Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima stands in Kano, 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 Kaduna
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kaduna.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KadunaKaduna
- Diocese of KafanchanKafanchan
- Diocese of KatsinaKatsina
- Diocese of KontagoraKontagora
- Diocese of MinnaMinna
- Diocese of SokotoSokoto
- Diocese of ZariaZaria
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the ecclesiastical province of Kaduna in Nigeria, the city of Kano gives its name to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kano (Latin: Kanen(sis)).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, 50 Race Course Road, Plot 19, P.O. Box 11115, Nasarawa GRA, 700001 Kano, Kano State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0803]74.33.244
- [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].