The Anglican Diocese of Warri is one of 12 within the

Anglican Province of Bendel The Bendel Province is one of the fourteen ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of Nigeria. It comprises thirteen dioceses, each one headed by a bishop and it was created in 2002, when the current division into provinces was adopted. His headqu ...

, itself one of 14 provinces within the

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 Englan ...

. The current bishop is

Christian Esezi Ide Christian Esezi Ide is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Ide is the current Bishop of Warri. Ide was born on 21 September 21, 1959 in Benin City and educated at Immanuel College of Theology, Ibadan. He was ordained in July 1997. He has served at ...

John Onyaene Dafiewhare John Onyaene Dafiewhare was enthroned as the first Bishop of Warri in Delta State, Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, ...

was enthroned as the first Bishop of Warri on 28 January 1980 (Dafiewhare died in 1994).

Nathaniel Enuku This is a list of the Archbishops and Bishops in the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, in post in 2000. In 2000, the church had 3 Provinces in Nigeria, each with an Archbishop. Each Province is divided into dioceses; there were 76 dioceses i ...

took over the see from April 1992 until March 2003, and was followed in 2006, after a hiatus of 3 years, by

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