Diocese of Bauchi
Bauchian(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bauchi, Nigeria
The Diocese of Bauchi is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in northern Nigeria, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1996 and raised to a diocese in 2003. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jos.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 December 2003
- Latin
- Bauchian(us)
- Patron
- Saint John the Evangelist
- Annuario code
- 001000859
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 79,000
- Population
- 5,406,530
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 1.5%
- Priests
- 41
- Catholics per priest
- 1,927
- Extent
- 64,605 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.2
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
- Hilary Nanman Dachelem, C.M.F.
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 St. John the Evangelist stands in Bauchi, 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 Jos
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Jos.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of JosJos
- Diocese of JalingoJalingo
- Diocese of MaiduguriMaiduguri
- Diocese of PankshinPankshin
- Diocese of ShendamShendam
- Diocese of WukariWukari
- Diocese of YolaYola
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Northern Nigeria, the Latin Church maintains the Diocese of Bauchi (Latin: Bauchian(us)), a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Jos that nonetheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The Cathedral of St. John Evangelist stands in the episcopal see of Bauchi, in Bauchi State.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, St. John’s the Evangelist Cathedral, Yandoka Road, P.O. Box 17, Bauchi, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0706]99.36.663
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.