Bishop of Port Harcourt | |
|---|---|
| Bishopric | |
| catholic | |
| Incumbent: Camillus Archibong Etokudoh | |
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Calabar |
| Information | |
| First holder | Godfrey Okoye |
| Established | 1961 |
| Diocese | Port Harcourt |
| Cathedral | Corpus Christi Cathedral |
The Bishop of Port Harcourt is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt in the Ecclesiastical province of Calabar, Nigeria.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt is a diocese located in the city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State in the Ecclesiastical province of Calabar in Nigeria.
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of several dioceses, one of them being the archdiocese, headed by metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all other bishops of the province.
Calabar is the capital of Cross River State, Nigeria. It was originally named Akwa Akpa, in Efik language. The city is adjacent to the Calabar and Great Kwa rivers and creeks of the Cross River.
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The diocese covers an area of 21,850 km2 (8,440 square miles). The Episcopal see is in Port Harcourt where the bishop's seat ( cathedra ) is located at the Corpus Christi Cathedral, D-line. [1] The current bishop is the Most Reverend Camillus Archibong Etokudoh, the third Bishop of Port Harcourt.
An episcopal see is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Port Harcourt is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta. As of 2016, the Port Harcourt urban area has an estimated population of 1,865,000 inhabitants, up from 1,382,592 as of 2006.
A cathedra or bishop's throne is the seat of a bishop. It is a symbol of the bishop's teaching authority in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion churches. Cathedra is the Latin word for a chair with armrests, and it appears in early Christian literature in the phrase "cathedrae apostolorum", indicating authority derived directly from the apostles; its Roman connotations of authority reserved for the Emperor were later adopted by bishops after the 4th century. A church into which a bishop's official cathedra is installed is called a cathedral.
