The boom in vocation to the priesthood in Nigeria is mainly in the Southeastern part, especially among the Igbo ethnic group, of which the first evangelizers were Holy Ghost Fathers.

[7] The second papal visit to the country in 1998 witnessed the beatification of Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi.

[8] Pope John Paul II proclaimed him blessed at Oba, Onitsha Archdiocese, a local Church established by the apostle of eastern Nigerian, Bishop Joseph Shanahan, CSSp.

A more traditionalist subset of the Catholic Church is also present in Nigeria and embodied by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (Nne Enyemaka Shrine,[13] Umuaka).

There also exists a community of the irregular status Society of St. Pius X (Saint Michael's Priory,[14][15] Enugu).