The Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, also called Abuja Cathedral, is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church located on the Funmilayo Kuti street in Garki in the city of

Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

the capital of the African country of

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. It serves as the procathedral or temporary cathedral of Abuja and is expected to be replaced by the Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles in the same city when it is completed. Initially it was called "Church of All Saints" and had its first priest in 1983. The church follows the Roman Catholic or Latin rite and is the mother church of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Abuja (''Archidioecesis Abugensis''), which was created as a

mission sui juris A mission ''sui iuris'', or in Latin ''missio sui iuris'' (plural ''missions sui iuris''); also spelled mission(s) sui juris), also known as an independent mission, is a rare type of Roman Catholic missionary pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction, rankin ...

in 1981 and was elevated to its current status in 1994 through the bull "Quo aptius" of the

pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama. The cathedral was visited by Pope John Paul II in 1988 and also by the then president of Nigeria

Goodluck Jonathan Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford, ''The Source'' (Lagos), 11 December 2006. is a Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to fo ...

in 2015.

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