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Bishop Of Kebbi (Anglican)
The Anglican Diocese of Kebbi is one of eleven within the Anglican Province of Kaduna The Anglican Province of Kaduna is one of the 14 ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of Nigeria. The first archbishop was Josiah Idowu-Fearon, from 2002 to 2008. The current archbishop is Ali Buba Lamido, bishop of Wusasa, since 2017. It has 1 ..., itself one of 14 provinces within the Church of Nigeria. The current bishop is Edmund Akanya Notes Dioceses of the Province of Kaduna Church of Nigeria dioceses {{Nigeria-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Province Of Kaduna
The Anglican Province of Kaduna is one of the 14 ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of Nigeria. The first archbishop was Josiah Idowu-Fearon, from 2002 to 2008. The current archbishop is Ali Buba Lamido, bishop of Wusasa, since 2017. It has 11 dioceses: *Bari (Bishop: Idris Zubairu) *Dutse (Bishop: Markus Yohanna Danbinta; first bishop Yusufu Ibrahim Lumu, consecrated 30 November 1996, Oke-Bola)Samuel Gambo Kwashang, "The Anglican Church in Northern Nigeria under the episcopacy of Bishop Titus Eyiolorunsefunmi Ogbonyomi from 1976 to 1996" (June 2006pp. 36–37/ref> *Gusau (Bishop: John Garba Danbinta) *Ikara (Bishop: Yusuf Janfalan) *Kaduna (Bishop: Timothy Yahaya) *Kano (Bishop: Zakka Nyam; founded 8 January 1980 from Kaduna; first bishop Bertram Baima Ayam) *Katsina (Bishop: Jonathan Bamaiyi; first bishop J. S. Kwasu, consecrated 29 April 1990, Kaduna) *Kebbi (Bishop: Edmund Akanya; erected from Sokoto diocese; first bishop Edmund Efoyikeye Akanya consecr ... [...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] |
Edmund Akanya
Edmund Akanya is an Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ... bishop in Nigeria: formerly the Archbishop of Kaduna, he is the current Bishop of Kebbi. He was elected Archbishop of Kaduna Province for a second term on 19 January 2013. Notes Living people 1967 births Anglican archbishops of Kaduna Anglican bishops of Kaduna 21st-century Anglican bishops in Nigeria Anglican bishops of Kebbi {{Nigeria-Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dioceses Of The Province Of Kaduna
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 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
