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Church of Christ in Nigeria. The Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), formerly Church of Christ in Nigeria, is a Christian denomination in Nigeria. It was founded in 1904. Its headquarters is in Jos, Plateau State. It used to have the name of Ekklesiyar Kristi A Nigeria. It is estimated to have over 8,000,000 members.
The Christian share of Nigeria's population is also now on the decline, due to a lower fertility rate relative to the Muslim population in the country. [5] Most Christians are Protestant (broadly defined), though about a quarter are Catholic. [6] [7] The majority of Nigerian Muslims are either Sunni or non-denominational Muslims.
A holy city is a city important to the history or faith of a specific religion. Such cities may also contain at least one headquarters complex (often containing a religious edifice, seminary, shrine, residence of the leading cleric of the religion and/or chambers of the religious leadership's offices) which constitutes a major destination of human traffic, or pilgrimage to the city, especially ...
The Latin and Eastern Catholic Churches comprise the world's largest Christian Church, and its largest religious grouping. In 2005, there were an estimated 19 million baptised Catholics in Nigeria. [5] In 2010 the Catholic population accounted for approximately 12.6% of the population, [6] 70% of which can be found in Southeast Nigeria ...
The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptised membership (not by attendance), after the Church of England. In 2016 it stated that its membership was “over 18 million", [4] out of a total Nigerian population of 190 million.
Pentarchy (from the Greek Πενταρχία, Pentarchía, from πέντε pénte, "five", and ἄρχειν archein, "to rule") was a model of Church organization formulated in the laws of Emperor Justinian I (r.527–565) of the Roman Empire. In this model, the Christian Church is governed by the heads (patriarchs) of the five major episcopal ...
The African Church is a Christian denomination that was established in the British colonial areas that later became Nigeria in 1901. It was established after strong disagreements arose between the European leadership of the Anglican Church and the native African leadership. Following the installation of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a black ...
Protestantism in Nigeria. The National Cathedral, Abuja, Nigeria. Protestant Christians in Nigeria constitute about 75% of the Christian population, or about 60 million people. [1] Christianity in the Yoruba areas has traditionally been Protestant and Anglican. With political independence came African priests in Protestant denominations ...