Home
- Comments
- RSS Feeds
- Twitter
- About
Jurisdictions
Prelates
- Popes
- Cardinals
  - Living Cardinals
  - By Age
  - By Country
  - By Last Name
  - By Precedence
  - All Cardinals
  - By Last Name
  - By Date of Death
  - Consistories
  - Titles and Deaconries
  - Recent Appointments
- Patriarchs
  - Eastern Rites
  - Armenian
  - Chaldean
  - Coptic
  - Greek-Melkite
  - Maronite
  - Syrian
  - Latin Rite
  - East Indies
  - Jerusalem
  - Lisbon
  - Venice
- Major Archbishops
- Archbishops and Bishops
- Recent Appointments
- Papal Audiences
- New Bishops
- Youngest Bishops
- Oldest Bishops
- Retiring Bishops
  - Age ≥75
  - Age 74
- Jubilarians
- Necrology
- Mottos
Churches
Documents
- By Author
- By Language
- By Name
- By Tag
  - Eucharist
  - Liturgy
  - Marriage
  - Mary
  - Priest
  - Social
  - ...
- By Type
- By Year
  - 2014
  - 2012-2013
  - 2010-2011
  - ...
- Celebrations
- Commemorations
Saints
- Saints
- Blesseds
Canada
- Dioceses
- All Churches
- Cathedrals
- Basilicas
- Shrines
- Saints
- Nuncios
- Toronto

Map

Diocese of

Makurdi

Nigeria

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Abuja

History

1934.07.09: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Benue (from Apostolic Vicariate of Western Nigeria)
1950.04.18: Renamed as Apostolic Prefecture of Oturkpo / Oturkpœn(sis) (Latin)
1950.07.14: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Yola
1955.02.21: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Kabba
1959.04.02: Promoted as Diocese of Oturkpo / Oturkpœn(sis) (Latin)
1960.06.28: Renamed as Diocese of Makurdi / Makurden(sis) (Latin)
1995.07.10: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Otukpo
2000.12.05: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Lafia
2012.12.29: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Gboko and Diocese of Katsina-Ala

Special Churches

Cathedral: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral, Makurdi, Benue

Present Prelates

Bishop (1989.06.02 – ...):

Bishop Athanasius Atule Usuh (74)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Makurdi (Roman Rite)

Bishop Athanasius Atule Usuh (74)
(1989.06.02 – ...)

Bishop of Makurdi (Nigeria)

Born:	1940 (Nigeria)
Ordained Priest:	1971.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1988.01.06

Coadjutor Bishop of Makurdi (Nigeria) (1987.11.18 – 1989.06.02)

Bishop of Makurdi (Nigeria) (1989.06.02 – ...)

Bishop Donal Joseph Murray, C.S.Sp.
(1968.01.11 – 1989.06.02)

Born:	1918.02.11 (Ireland)
Ordained Priest:	1946.04.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.03.29
Died:	1999.08.14 († 81)

Bishop of Makurdi (Nigeria) (1968.01.11 – 1989.06.02)

Bishop James Hagan, C.S.Sp.
(1960.03.08 – 1966.03.29)

Born:	1904.03.23 (United Kingdom)
Ordained Priest:	1928.10.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1960.05.08
Died:	1976.12.12 († 72)

Bishop of Oturkpo (Nigeria) (1948.03.20 – 1960.03.08)

Bishop of Makurdi (Nigeria) (1960.03.08 – 1966.03.29)

Titular Bishop of Horrea Cœlia (1966.03.29 – 1970.12.07)

Bishops of Oturkpo (Roman Rite)

Bishop-elect James Hagan, C.S.Sp.
(1948.03.20 – 1960.03.08)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Benue (Roman Rite)

Fr. Giuseppe Kirsten, C.S.Sp.
(1937.02.26 – 1947)

Died:

1947

Prefect Apostolic of Benue (Nigeria) (1937.02.26 – 1947)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Athanasius Atule Usuh (74) (1987.11.18 – 1989.06.02)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop William Amove Avenya (58) (2008.11.28 – 2012.12.29)

as of 2014.02.28

© 2014 GCatholic.org