Diocese of Ondo
Ondoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ondo, Nigeria
The Diocese of Ondo is a Latin Church diocese in Ondo State, Nigeria, established as a diocese in 1950. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ibadan, with its seat at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Akure.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 April 1950
- Latin
- Ondoën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002456
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 265,000
- Population
- 3,674,692
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 7.2%
- Priests
- 108
- Catholics per priest
- 2,454
- Extent
- 15,518 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 17
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
- Jude Ayodeji Arogundade
- Born
- 2 June 1961
- Birthplace
- Oka-Akoko
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
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Akure stands in Ondo, 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 IlorinIlorin
- Diocese of OsogboOsogbo
- Diocese of OyoOyo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Covering territory in Ondo State within Nigeria's ecclesiastical province of Ibadan, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ondo (Latin: Ondoën(sis)) keeps its cathedral and diocesan secretariat in Akure.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 46, Ondo Bye-Pass, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
- Telephone
- [0805]22.00.959
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.