Diocese of Ilorin
Ilorinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ilorin, Nigeria
The Diocese of Ilorin is a Latin Church diocese in Kwara State, Nigeria, erected as a diocese on 29 May 1969 (from a 1960 apostolic prefecture) and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Ibadan. Bishop Anselm Pendo Lawani has led the see since 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 May 1969
- Latin
- Ilorinen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001001654
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 25,500
- Population
- 1,260,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 2.0%
- Priests
- 53
- Catholics per priest
- 481
- Extent
- 32,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.8
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
- Anselm Pendo Lawani
- Born
- 12 September 1970
- Birthplace
- Igarra
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
Saint Joseph Cathedral, Ilorin stands in Ilorin, 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 Ibadan
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ibadan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of IbadanIbadan
- Diocese of EkitiEkiti
- Diocese of OndoOndo
- Diocese of OsogboOsogbo
- Diocese of OyoOyo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within Nigeria's ecclesiastical province of Ibadan, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ilorin (Latin: Ilorinen(sis)) has its seat in the city of Ilorin.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 686, 16 Umar Audi Rd., Tanke Junction, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0916]11.29.727
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.