Catholic Church in Nigeria

Area: 923,768 km²

Catholic Population: 33,406,000 Catholics (14.8% of 225,400,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 4,603 parishes, 12,554 mission stations (68 with resident priest, 12,486 without resident priest), 285 other centres

Clergy: 77 bishops (55 diocesan, 22 titular), 9,811 priests (8,090 diocesan, 1,721 religious), 12 permanent deacons (1 diocesan, 11 religious)

Non-Clergy: 7,214 religious (589 brothers, 6,625 sisters), 68 members of secular institutes (10 brothers, 58 sisters), 6,527 major seminarians, 2,688 missionaries, 19,166 catechists