Diocese of

Minna

Nigeria

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Minna / Minnaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kaduna

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1964.11.09: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Minna / Minnaën(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kaduna)
1973.09.17: Promoted as Diocese of Minna / Minnaën(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Kaduna)
1981.11.06: Lost territory to establish Mission sui juris of Abuja
1995.12.15: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Kontagora

Present Prelates

Bishop (1996.07.05 – ...):	Bishop Martin Igwemezie Uzoukwu (74)
Auxiliary Bishop (2020.12.09 – ...):	Bishop Luka Sylvester Gopep (59) Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Byzacena

Ordinaries

Bishops of Minna (Roman Rite)

Bishop Martin Igwemezie Uzoukwu (74)
(1996.07.05 – ...)

Bishop of Minna (Nigeria)

Born:	1950.09.09 (Ozubulu, Nigeria)
Ordained Priest:	1981.09.27
Consecrated Bishop:	1996.11.30

Priest of Ilorin (Nigeria) (1981.09.27 – 1996.07.05)

Bishop of Minna (Nigeria) (1996.07.05 – ...)

Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba
(1973.09.17 – 1996.07.05)

Born:	1935.12.20 (Nigeria)
Ordained Priest:	1966.12.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.12.30
Died:	2010.01.10 († 74)

Bishop of Minna (Nigeria) (1973.09.17 – 1996.07.05)

Bishop of Yola (Nigeria) (1996.07.05 – 2010.01.10)

Prefects Apostolic of Minna (Roman Rite)

Fr. Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P.S. (later Bishop)
(1964.11.25 – 1973.09.17)

Born:	1925.03.01 (Ireland)
Ordained Priest:	1950.04.09
Consecrated Bishop:	1976.01.06
Died:	2010.04.17 († 85)

Prefect Apostolic of Minna (Nigeria) (1964.11.25 – 1973.09.17)

Apostolic Administrator of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) (1973 – 1991.08.31)

Titular Bishop of Fordongianus (1975.11.20 – 1991.08.31)

Apostolic Administrator of Warri (Nigeria) (1983 – 1991.08.31)

Bishop of Warri (Nigeria) (1991.08.31 – 1997.03.03)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Michael’s Cathedral, Minna, Niger

Ilorin (↙), Kontagora (↖), Kaduna (↗), Kafanchan (→), Abuja (↘), Lokoja (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 36,031 km²

Population: 98,575 Catholics (2.6% of 3,817,920 total)

Pastoral Centres: 62 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 125 priests (88 diocesan, 37 religious), 127 religious (50 brothers, 77 sisters), 79 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.01.03

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