Vatican Erects Katsina Diocese

The Vatican has created a new Diocese in Nigeria’s Northwest. It is the Catholic Diocese of Katsina. The erection of the Katsina Diocese by the Holy Father Pope Francis has just been announced, bringing cheers to Catholics and hopes evangelization. The new Diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, was created out of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto which until now, is being administered by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah. The new Diocese of Katsina is a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Kaduna. The news of the erection of the new Diocese came with the appointment of the Rev. Sac Gerald Mamman Musa, of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Professor and Director of the Center for Studies on African Culture and Communication (CESACC) at the “Catholic Institute of West Africa” (CIWA), Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Bishop Gerald Mamman Musa was born on 16 January 1971 in Gusau, Zamfara State. After attending Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Major Seminary in Makurdi and