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Anglican Diocese of Okigwe South

anglican diocese in Nigeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ104859351 ↗
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The Anglican Diocese of Okigwe South is one of twelve dioceses within the Anglican Province of Owerri, itself one of fourteen ecclesiastical provinces within the Church of Nigeria.

It was inaugurated on January 8, 1994, out of the Diocese of Okigwe-Orlu as the 44th Diocese of the country. The Bishop was Bennett Okoro. The Diocese started with 10 priests, eight parishes, 48 church stations and five archdeaconries: there are now nine Archdeaconries Caleb Maduoma became its second Bishop in 2004. The current bishop is David Onuoha, who in July 2020 was elected Archbishop of Owerri. The Diocese on creation had one mission school; it now has 6.

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“Anglican Diocese of Okigwe South” enters the record as anglican diocese in Nigeria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anglican, Diocese and Okigwe can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anglican Diocese of Okigwe South” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.