Diocese of Lafia, Nigeria

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Lafia / Lafien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Abuja

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Website:

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

2000.12.05: Established as Diocese of Lafia / Lafien(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Jos and Diocese of Makurdi and became suffragan of Abuja)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2021.03.31 – ...):

Bishop David Ajang (54)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Lafia (Roman Rite)

Bishop David Ajang (54)
(2021.03.31 – ...)

Bishop of Lafia (Nigeria)

Thesaurum in vasis fictilibus

Born:	1970.03.31 (Zaria, Nigeria)
Ordained Priest:	1994.12.03
Consecrated Bishop:	2021.06.24

Priest of Jos (Nigeria) (1994.12.03 – 2021.03.31)

Bishop of Lafia (Nigeria) (2021.03.31 – ...)

Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu (65) (later Archbishop)
(2000.12.05 – 2020.01.06)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Jos (Nigeria)

Ikon Allah

Born:	1959.06.07 (Rafin-Pa, Nigeria)
Ordained Priest:	1984.06.23
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.03.31

Priest of Makurdi (Nigeria) (1984.06.23 – 2000.12.05)

Bishop of Lafia (Nigeria) (2000.12.05 – 2020.01.06)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Jos (Nigeria) (2020.01.06 – ...)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. William, Lafia, Nasarawa

Idah (↙), Lokoja (←), Abuja (↖), Kafanchan (↑), Jos (↑), Pankshin (↗), Shendam (→), Makurdi (↓), Otukpo (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 28,000 km²

Population: 330,135 Catholics (11.4% of 2,886,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 23 parishes, 36 missions

Personnel: 91 priests (75 diocesan, 16 religious), 104 religious (16 brothers, 88 sisters), 36 seminarians

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