BY Daniel Harkins | January 20 | 
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Nigerian bishop dies aged 58
Bishop James Daman of Shendam Diocese, Nigeria, which has close ties to St Andrews and Edinburgh Archdiocese, died in his sleep on January 12
A Nigerian Bishop who had links with St Andrews and Edinburgh Archdiocese died last week at the age of 58.
Bishop James Naaman Daman of Shendam Diocese, in Plateau State, was found dead in his room at his residence on January 12.
Bishop Daman of the Order of St Augustine, was born April 10, 1956 in Miket and ordained by Pope John Paul II in 1982. He was appointed bishop of Jalingo Diocese in December 2000, and Bishop of Shendam in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI.
He was principal co-consecrator of Bishop Malachy John Goltok in the new Bauchi Diocese in 2011, along with Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop Emeritus of St Andrews and Edinburgh (pic below).
Bauchi Diocese has had long-standing links with St Andrews and Edinburgh Archdiocese, which was one of the first to respond to Fidei Donum—the encyclical of Pope Pius XII in 1957 that called on priests to go on missions to other continents—and was twinned with Bauchi for more than 30 years.
Canon Leo Glancy of Christ the King and Sacred Heart, Grangemouth—who himself served in Nigeria—paid tribute to Bishop Daman saying that ‘our brothers and sisters in Christ are praying with us.’
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