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Anglican Diocese Of Okene
The Anglican Diocese of Okene is one of eleven within the Anglican Province of Lokoja, itself one of 14 provinces within the Church of Nigeria. The current bishop is Emmanuel Onsachi. Notes Dioceses of the Province of Lokoja Church of Nigeria dioceses {{Nigeria-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Province Of Lokoja
The Anglican Province of Lokoja is one of the 14 ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of Nigeria. It comprises 11 dioceses. The Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Lokoja and Bishop of Minna is Daniel Abubakar Yisa. He was preceded by Emmanuel Sokowamju Egbunu. It has 11 dioceses: *Anglican Diocese of Doko, Doko (Bishop: Uriah Kolo) *Anglican Diocese of Ijumu, Ijumu (Bishop: Paul Olarewaju Ojo) *Kabba (Bishop: Steven Akobe; first bishop consecrated 11 February 1996 and diocese inaugurated 12 February 1996)Samuel Gambo Kwashang, "The Anglican Church in Northern Nigeria under the episcopacy of Bishop Titus Eyiolorunsefunmi Ogbonyomi from 1976 to 1996" (June 2006p. 37/ref> *Anglican Diocese of Kontagora, Kontagora (Bishop: Jonah Ibrahim) *Anglican Diocese of Kutigi, Kutigi (Bishop: Jeremiah Kolo) *Anglican Diocese of Lokoja, Lokoja (Bishop: Emmanuel Egbunu) *Diocese of Minna, Minna (Bishop: Daniel Abubakar Yisa) *Anglican Diocese of Ogori-Magongo, Ogori-Magongo (Bishop: Festus D ... [...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] |
Emmanuel Onsachi
Emmanuel Onsachi is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria: previously an Archdeacon he is the current Bishop of Okene, one of 11 dioceses within the Anglican Province of Lokoja, itself one of 14 provinces within the Church of Nigeria. Onsachi succeeded Emmanuel Bayode Ajulo Emmanuel Bayode Ajulo (born 26 September 1947) served as the first Anglican Bishop of Okene in Lokoja Province of the Church of Nigeria from 2008 until his retirement in 2017. He was born in Lampese (now Edo State), and attended the Anglican ..., who retired on 25 May 2017. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Onsachi, Emmanuel Living people Anglican bishops of Okene 21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dioceses Of The Province Of Lokoja
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] |
