By CSN Media
The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has created a new diocese of Katsina in Nigeria, and has named Rev. Fr. Gerald Musa as the new bishop of the ecclesiastical see.
The new diocese which is suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Kaduna, is carved out of the Catholic diocese of Sokoto.
Very Rev. Fr. Gerald Mamman Musa, who is an incadinated Priest of the diocese of Sokoto, is a 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.
He was born on 16 January 1971 in Gusau, Zamfara State. After attending Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Major Seminary in Makurdi and Saint Augustine’s Major Seminary in Jos, he was ordained as a priest on 1 June 1996 for the clergy of the Diocese of Sokoto. He holds a Master’s degree in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), a Licentiate in Social Sciences.
