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Suffragan diocese Ogoja, Nigeria

Diocese of Ogoja

Ogogiaën(sis)

The Diocese of Ogoja in Cross River State, Nigeria, began as an apostolic prefecture in 1938 and was erected as a diocese in 1955. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Calabar, its cathedral is St. Benedict Cathedral, and Bishop Donatus Edet Akpan has led it since 2017.

On the map

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The address the register holds for St. Benedict Cathedral, Ogoja, in Ogoja, Nigeria.

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Established
1955
Catholics
902,975
Priests
67
Territory
12,557 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Donatus Edet Akpan
Born
7 August 1952
Birthplace
Ikot Ada Utor

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The cathedral

St. Benedict Cathedral, Ogoja stands in Ogoja, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

A Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, the Diocese of Ogoja (Latin: Ogogiaën(sis)) is a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Calabar, while still depending on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedra stands in Saint Benedict Cathedral, named for the diocesan patron Saint Benedict, in the episcopal see of Ogoja in Cross River State.

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