The Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral or simply Kano Cathedral, is the name given to a religious building belonging to the

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in the city of Kano, one of the largest in the African country of

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. It owes its name to the

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who Catholics consider the

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, under the invocation of

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. The present structure was established as a

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in 1954 and obtained the status of Cathedral in 1999 with the bull "''Dilectas Afras''" under the pontificate of

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. It functions as the main church or mother church of the diocese of Kano (''Dioecesis Kanensis'') which began as a Mission "sui iuris" in 1991 and was promoted to Apostolic Vicariate in 1995 (papal bull Cum Missio). The temple follows the

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of the Catholic Church and is under the responsibility of Bishop John Namawzah Niyiring. In 2018 a mass was held in this church to commemorate 100 years of Catholicism in the state of Kano with the presence of bishops and religious from all over the country.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Our Lady of Fatima, Church Roman Catholic cathedrals in Nigeria Kano 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Nigeria

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