Diocese of Minna, Nigeria

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Minna / Minnaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kaduna

Bishop (1996.07.05 – ...):	Bishop Martin Igwemezie Uzoukwu (72)
Auxiliary Bishop (2020.12.09 – ...):	Bishop Luka Sylvester Gopep (57) Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Byzacena

Bishops of Minna (Roman Rite)

Bishop Martin Igwemezie Uzoukwu (72)
(1996.07.05 – ...)

Bishop of Minna (Nigeria)

Bishop of Minna (Nigeria) (1996.07.05 – ...)

Bishop of Minna (Nigeria) (1973.09.17 – 1996.07.05)

Bishop of Yola (Nigeria) (1996.07.05 – 2010.01.10)

Prefects Apostolic of Minna (Roman Rite)

Fr. Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P.S. (later Bishop)
(1964.11.25 – 1973.09.17)

Prefect Apostolic of Minna (Nigeria) (1964.11.25 – 1973.09.17)

Apostolic Administrator of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) (1973 – 1991.08.31)

Titular Bishop of Fordongianus (1975.11.20 – 1991.08.31)

Apostolic Administrator of Warri (Nigeria) (1983 – 1991.08.31)

Bishop of Warri (Nigeria) (1991.08.31 – 1997.03.03)

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Area: 36,031 km²

Population: 93,190 Catholics (2.6% of 3,607,500 total) (2020)

Statistics: 60 parishes, 89 priests (66 diocesan, 23 religious), 105 lay religious (26 brothers, 79 sisters), 87 seminarians (2020)

1964.11.09: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Minna / Minnaën(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kaduna)
1973.09.17: Promoted as Diocese of Minna / Minnaën(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Kaduna)
1981.11.06: Lost territory to establish Mission sui juris of Abuja
1995.12.15: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Kontagora