The Diocese of Awka was created on 9 March 1987, from the Diocese on the Niger and inaugurated during a ceremony at the then Pro-Cathedral, St Faith’s. The cathedral is St Faith’s, Awka; the diocese was split on 5 September 2005, to create the Aguata diocese. when it was carved out of the then Diocese on the Niger under Bishop J.A Onyemelukwe. It was inaugurated on the same day by Archbishop Timothy O. Olufosoye at the then St.