OTURKPO, APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE OF. — It is situated in the central-eastern part of Nigeria. It was erected on 9 July 1934 under the BENE (v.), changed to O. on 18 April 1950, when the episcopal hierarchy was established in British West Africa.
BIBL.: AAS, 27 (1935), pp. 323-325; 42 (1950), pp. 615-19; MC, Rome 1950, p. 119. Carlo Corvo