Diocese of Shendam, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Shendam / Shendamen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Jos

2007.06.02: Established as Diocese of Shendam / Shendamen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Jos and became suffragan of Jos)
2014.03.18: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Pankshin

Bishop (2016.11.05 – ...):

Bishop Philip Davou Dung (66)

Bishops of Shendam (Roman Rite)

Bishop Philip Davou Dung (66)
(2016.11.05 – ...)

Bishop of Shendam (Nigeria)

Priest of Jos (Nigeria) (1984.11.24 – 2016.11.05)

Bishop of Shendam (Nigeria) (2016.11.05 – ...)

Bishop James Naanman Daman, O.S.A.
(2007.06.02 – 2015.01.12)

Bishop of Jalingo (Nigeria) (2000.12.05 – 2007.06.02)

Apostolic Administrator of Jalingo (Nigeria) (2007.06.02 – 2008.04.16)

Bishop of Shendam (Nigeria) (2007.06.02 – 2015.01.12)

Makurdi (↙), Lafia (←), Pankshin (↑), Jalingo (→), Wukari (↓)

Area: 11,644 km²

Population: 228,341 Catholics (13.4% of 1,708,923 total)

Pastoral Centres: 39 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 63 priests (62 diocesan, 1 religious), 20 religious (1 brother, 19 sisters), 39 seminarians