Diocese of Kafanchan
Kafancan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kafanchan, Nigeria
The Diocese of Kafanchan is a Latin Catholic diocese in Kaduna State, Nigeria, established in 1995. A suffragan of Kaduna, it is led by Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi and its cathedral is dedicated to St. Peter Claver.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 July 1995
- Latin
- Kafancan(us)
- Patron
- St. Peter Claver
- Annuario code
- 001001775
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 250,000
- Population
- 1,080,247
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 23.1%
- Priests
- 100
- Catholics per priest
- 2,500
- Extent
- 11,340 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 22
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
- Julius Yakubu Kundi
- Born
- 15 February 1968
- Birthplace
- Danladi
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
St. Peter Claver's Cathedral, Kafanchan stands in Kafanchan, 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 Kaduna
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kaduna.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KadunaKaduna
- Diocese of KanoKano
- Diocese of KatsinaKatsina
- Diocese of KontagoraKontagora
- Diocese of MinnaMinna
- Diocese of SokotoSokoto
- Diocese of ZariaZaria
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within Nigeria's ecclesiastical province of Kaduna, the city of Kafanchan is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan (Latin: Kafancan(us)).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 85, Madakiya, 801101 Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0803]37.06.253
- kafdiosec@gmail.com
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.