Diocese of Katsina
Katsinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Katsina, Nigeria
The Diocese of Katsina is a Latin Rite diocese in northern Nigeria, erected on 16 October 2023 from the Diocese of Sokoto and covering Katsina State and part of Zamfara State. Its first bishop is Gerald Mamman Musa, and it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaduna.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 October 2023
- Latin
- Katsinen(sis)
- Patron
- St. Martin de Porres
- Annuario code
- 001005118
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 19,000
- Population
- 9,669,439
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.2%
- Priests
- 15
- Catholics per priest
- 1,267
- Extent
- 29,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.7
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
- Gerald Mamman Musa
- Born
- 16 January 1971
- Birthplace
- Gusau
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. Martin de Porres Cathedral stands in Katsina, 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 KafanchanKafanchan
- Diocese of KanoKano
- Diocese of KontagoraKontagora
- Diocese of MinnaMinna
- Diocese of SokotoSokoto
- Diocese of ZariaZaria
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected by Pope Francis in 2023, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Katsina (Latin: Katsinen(sis)) has its seat in the Nigerian city of Katsina and belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Kaduna. Its territory corresponds to the state of Katsina.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- St. Martin's Cathedral, Nagogo Road, Oppsite Nitel Exchange, P.O. Box 55, Katsina State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0907]54.11.976
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.