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Metropolitan Archdiocese of

Ibadan

Nigeria Nigeria

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese

Area: 28,000 km²

Population: 343,655 Catholics (6.2% of 5,500,200 total) (2015)

Suffragan Sees: Ekiti, Ilorin, Ondo, Osogbo, Oyo

Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Statistics: 49 parishes, 153 priests (73 diocesan, 80 religious), 591 lay religious (461 brothers, 130 sisters), 31 seminarians (2015)

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History

Papal Visits

Special Churches

Present Prelates

Metropolitan Archbishop (2013.10.29 – ...):Archbishop Gabriel ’Leke Abegunrin (70)Archbishop Gabriel ’Leke Abegunrin (70)

Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Ibadan (Roman Rite)

Archbishop Gabriel ’Leke Abegunrin (70)Archbishop Gabriel ’Leke Abegunrin (70)Permalink
(2013.10.29 – ...)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Caritas vincit omnia

Born:1947 (Nigeria)
Ordained Priest:1979.04.21
Consecrated Bishop:1995.05.13

Bishop of Osogbo (Nigeria) (1995.03.03 – 2013.10.29)

Apostolic Administrator of Osogbo (Nigeria) (2013.10.29 – 2016.04.02)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ibadan (Nigeria) (2013.10.29 – ...)

Archbishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job (79)Archbishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job (79)Permalink
(1994.03.26 – 2013.10.29)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Born:1938.06.24 (Nigeria)
Ordained Priest:1966.12.24
Consecrated Bishop:1971.07.04

Titular Bishop of Abthugni (1971.03.11 – 1974.10.05)

Auxiliary Bishop of Ibadan (Nigeria) (1971.03.11 – 1974.10.05)

Bishop of Ibadan (Nigeria) (1974.10.05 – 1994.03.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ibadan (Nigeria) (1994.03.26 – 2013.10.29)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (2006 – 2012.04)

Bishops of Ibadan (Roman Rite)

Archbishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job (79)Bishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job (79) (later Archbishop)Permalink
(1974.10.05 – 1994.03.26)

(see above)

Bishop Richard Finn, S.M.A.Permalink
(1958.04.28 – 1974.07.03)

Born:1912.03.03
Ordained Priest:1941.12.14
Consecrated Bishop:1959.02.08
Died:1989.01.04 († 76)

Prefect Apostolic of Ibadan (Nigeria) (1953.03.13 – 1958.04.28)

Bishop of Ibadan (Nigeria) (1958.04.28 – 1974.07.03)

Prefects Apostolic of Ibadan (Roman Rite)

Fr. Richard Finn, S.M.A. (later Bishop)Permalink
(1953.03.13 – 1958.04.28)

(see above)

Former Prelates

as of 2017.08.17

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