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Anglican Diocese Of Oyo
The Anglican Diocese of Oyo is one of 19 within the Anglican Province of Ibadan, itself one of 14 provinces within the Church of Nigeria. The Bishop Emeritus is Jacob Ola Fasipe; and the current bishop is Williams Oluwarotimi Aladekugbe, who was elected on 9 August 2014. Notes Church of Nigeria dioceses Dioceses of the Province of Ibadan {{Nigeria-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Province Of Ibadan
The Ibadan Province is an ecclesiastical province of the Church of Nigeria. It was created when the division into ecclesiastical provinces was adopted in 2002, and it comprises 19 dioceses, 117 archdeaconries and 623 parishes. It comprised the following 19 dioceses in 2008: * Ajayi Crowther (11 March 2007; bishop: Olugbenga Olukemi Oduntan) * Ekiti Kwara (26 May 2008; bishop: Andrew Ajayi) * Ibadan (founded 25 January 1952, from the Diocese of Lagos; bishop: Joseph Akinfenwa) * Ibadan North (14 December 1998; bishop: Segun Okubadejo) * Ibadan South (13 July 1999; bishop: Jacob Ajetunmobi) * Ife (4 November 1990; bishop: Olubunmi Akinlade) * Ife East (28 May 2008; bishop: Rufus Okeremi) * Igbomina (14 July 1999; bishop: Michael Akinyemi) * Ilesa (2 November 1974; bishop: Samuel Sowole) * Jebba (25 May 2008; bishop: Oluwaseun Adeyinka Aderogba) * Kwara (1 November 1974; bishop: Olusegun Adeyemi) * New Bussa (9 March 2007; bishop: Israel Amoo) * Offa (14 July 1999; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Nigeria
The Church of Nigeria is the Anglicanism, Anglican Church body, church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest Province (Anglican), province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptised membership (not by attendance), after the Church of England. it gives its membership as "over 18 million", out of a total Nigerian population of 190 million. It is "effectively the largest province in the Communion." As measured by active membership, the Church of Nigeria has nearly 2 million active baptised members. According to a study published by ''Cambridge University Press'' in the ''Journal of Anglican Studies'', there are between 4.94 and 11.74 million Anglicans in Nigeria. The Church of Nigeria is the largest Anglican province on the continent of Africa, accounting for 41.7% of Anglicans in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is "probably the first [largest within the Anglican Communion] in terms of ''active'' members." Since 2002 the Church of Nigeria has been organised into 14 ecclesias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Ola Fasipe
Jacob Ola Fasipe was an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: he was Bishop of Oyo until he was succeeded on his retirement by Williams Oluwarotimi Aladekugbe in 2014. Fasipe was educated at Immanuel College of Theology, Ibadan and Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i .... He was enthroned as the pioneer Bishop of Oyo in 2004. Notes People from Edo State Living people Anglican bishops of Oyo 21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria University of Ibadan alumni Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Year of birth missing (living people) {{Nigeria-Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Oluwarotimi Aladekugbe
Williams Oluwarotimi Aladekugbe is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: he is the current Bishop of Oyo. Aladekugbe was the Dean of Ezekiel College of Theology Ujoelen Ekpoma, Edo state before his election to succeed Jacob Ola Fasipe as Bishop of Oyo at the 11th General Synod of the Church of Nigeria, held at the Cathedral Church of the Good Shepherd, Enugu Enugu ( ; ) is the capital city of Enugu State in Nigeria. It is located in southeastern part of Nigeria. The city had a population of 820,000 according to the 2022 Nigerian census. The name ''Enugu'' is derived from the two Igbo words ''Énú ..., in September 2014. Notes ] People from Edo State Living people Anglican bishops of Oyo 21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria Anglican deans in Africa Year of birth missing (living people) {{Nigeria-Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Nigeria Dioceses
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Dioceses Of The Province Of Ibadan
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into dioceses based on the civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situation must have hardly survived Julian, 361–363. Episcopal courts are not heard of again in the East until 398 and in the West in 408. The quality of these courts was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
