Diocese of Okigwe
Okigven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Okigwe, Nigeria
The Diocese of Okigwe is a Latin Church diocese in Imo State, Nigeria, established in 1981 from the Diocese of Umuahia. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Owerri, with St. Mary's Cathedral as its seat.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 January 1981
- Latin
- Okigven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002449
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 823,483
- Population
- 2,001,838
- Catholic share
- 41.1%
- Priests
- 320
- Catholics per priest
- 2,573
- Extent
- 1,824 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 451
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
- Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu
- Born
- 17 December 1950
- Birthplace
- Ukpo
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
St. Mary's Cathedral stands in Okigwe, 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 Owerri
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Owerri.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of OwerriOwerri
- Diocese of AbaAba
- Diocese of AhiaraAhiara
- Diocese of OrluOrlu
- Diocese of UmuahiaUmuahia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Okigwe, a city in Imo State within Nigeria's ecclesiastical province of Owerri, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Okigwe (Latin: Okigwen(sis)). As at 2016, the diocese counted 43 missions, 219 lay religious (33 brothers, 186 sisters), and 198 seminarians.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Secretariat, P.O. Box 99, Villa Lourdes, Okigwe, Imo State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0803]47.23.212
- [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].