The Anglican Diocese of Minna is one of eleven within the

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 Emmanue ...

, 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 Daniel Abubakar Yisa who is also

Archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...

of the

Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

. The Diocese of Minna was inaugurated on 3 September 1990, with its first bishop James A. Yisa (who had been consecrated on 29 April 1990 at St Michael's Cathedral, Kaduna).Samuel Gambo Kwashang, "The Anglican Church in Northern Nigeria under the episcopacy of Bishop Titus Eyiolorunsefunmi Ogbonyomi from 1976 to 1996" (June 2006
pp. 36–37
/ref> The second bishop was Nathaniel Yisa, who served from 1992 until 2005.

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Church of Nigeria dioceses Dioceses of the Province of Lokoja {{Nigeria-stub