Diocese of Zaria
Zarien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zaria, Nigeria
The Diocese of Zaria is a Latin Church suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Kaduna in Kaduna State, Nigeria, erected on 5 December 2000. Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of Christ the King in Zaria.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 December 2000
- Latin
- Zarien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000236
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 68,950
- Population
- 1,839,927
- Catholic share
- 3.7%
- Priests
- 41
- Catholics per priest
- 1,682
- Extent
- 18,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.8
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
- Habila Tyiakwonaboi Daboh
- Born
- 10 June 1970
- Birthplace
- Zangon Kataf
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 Christ the King stands in Zaria, 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 KanoKano
- Diocese of KatsinaKatsina
- Diocese of KontagoraKontagora
- Diocese of MinnaMinna
- Diocese of SokotoSokoto
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Nigeria's Diocese of Zaria (Latin: Zarien(sis)) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church with its episcopal see at Zaria, Kaduna State. It is a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kaduna in Nigeria.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop's House, Hospital Road, Wusasa, P.O. Box 90, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0803]45.20.835; [0805]45.42.201
- [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].