AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Apostolic Vicar of Kontagora

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on February 2, 2012 appointed Rev. Sac. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, as Apostolic Vicar of Kontagora (Nigeria), assigning him the titular see of Scebaziana.
Rev. Sac. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna was born on December 15, 1970 in Vuroro, Agwara Local Government Area, Niger State, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Kontagora. He completed his studies in Philosophy and Theology at the Major Seminary of SS. Peter and Paul, Bodija, Ibadan in June 1997. He was ordained a priest on January 10, 1998 for the Diocese of Illorin. He was then incardinated in Kontagora at the time of the erection of the Vicariate on August 17, 2002.
After ordination he has held the following Offices and carried out further studies: 1998-2000: Assistant priest at St. Michael's Cathedral, Kontagora; 2000-2002: Pastor at St. Michael's Cathedral, Kontagora; 2003-2008: Parish priest at St. Mark, Nsanji Nloso Parish; 2000-2008: Coordinator of the Justice, Development and Peace Commission and President of the Integrated Development Commission; 2002-2008: Secretary of Masuga Managment Committee; 2000-2008: Member of the Commission for Vocations; 2006-2008: President of the liturgical Committee and President for the Council of Priests; 2008-2011: Studies in Pastoral Theology at the Catholic Institute of West Africa (CIWA), in Port-Harcourt. Since 2011 he has been collaborating with the Apostolic Administrator of Kontagora as Executive Secretary.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Kontagora, erected in 2002, has an area of 50,000 square kilometers and a population of 1,534,000 inhabitants, of whom 32,934 are Catholics. There are 12 parishes, 36 priests (24 diocesan and 12 religious), 18 nuns and 13 major seminarians. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 03/02/2012)