The leader of the Catholic church, Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Fr. Dr. Habila Tyiakwonaboi Daboh as the Bishop of Zaria Diocese, Kaduna State.
The announcement was contained in a statement issued on the Facebook page of the Catholic Broadcast Commission, Nigeria, on Thursday.
Until his appointment, Daboh was the Rector of the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna, a position he has held since 2016.
The statement revealed that Daboh was born on 10 June 1970 in the Zangon Kataf area, in the Archdiocese of Kaduna.
He was ordained a priest on 10 July 1999 for the Archdiocese of Kaduna after completing studies at Saint Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary in Makurdi and Saint Augustine’s Major Seminary in Jos.