Diocese of Bomadi
diocese of the Catholic Church
The Diocese of Bomadi (Latin: Dioecesis Bomadiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Its episcopal see is in Bomadi, Delta State. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Benin City.
Territory
The Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi straddles the Niger River and Niger Delta and includes portions of Delta State and Rivers State.
History
17 March 1991: Established as Mission “sui iuris” of Bomadi from the Dioceses of Port Harcourt and Warri.
15 December 1996: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi
21 September 2017: elevated to Diocese
Special Churches
Our Lady of the Waters Cathedral, Bomadi
Bishops
Ecclesiastical Superior of Bomadi
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This entry incorporates text from “Diocese of Bomadi” 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.