It is vacant since decades, having had only the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) rank:[2]
Dominic Ignatius Ekandem (1953.08.07 – 1963.03.01) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Calabar (Nigeria) (1953.08.07 – 1963.03.01), later Bishop of Ikot Ekpene (Nigeria) (1963.03.01 – 1989.06.19), Apostolic Administrator of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) (1970 – 1973), President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (1973 – 1979), created
Cardinal-Priest of
S. Marcello (1976.05.24 – death 1995.11.24), President of Association of the Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa (1978 – 1983), Ecclesiastical Superior of Abuja (Nigeria) (1981.11.06 – 1989.06.19), Archbishop-Bishop of Abuja (Nigeria) (1989.06.19 – retired 1992.09.28)
^Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works. To which are now added, several sermons. (Joseph Bingham, 1834)