Diocese of Bauchi
The Diocese of Bauchi is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Nigeria. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Jos in, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. John Evangelist, located in the episcopal see of Bauchi in Bauchi State.
History
- Established on 5 July 1996 as Apostolic Vicariate of Bauchi, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Jos
- Promoted on 31 December 2003 as Diocese of Bauchi/ Bauchian
Statistics
, it pastorally served 79,000 Catholics on 66,102 km2 in 23 parishes and 1 mission with 39 priests, 18 lay religious and 13 seminarians.Episcopal ordinaries
;Apostolic Vicar of Bauchi;Suffragan Bishops of Bauchi
- John Moore, S.M.A.
- Malachy John Goltok
- Bishop-elect Hilary Nanman Dachelem, Claretians, no previous prelature.