- Source: Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba (Latin: Nkongsamben(sis)) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Douala in Cameroon.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale de l’Immaculée Conception, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception at Nkongsamba, in Moungo Department in the Littoral Region (Cameroon).
Statistics
As of 2014, it pastorally served 148,062 Catholics (42.4% of 349,270 total) on 4,057 km2 in 505 parishes, 3 missions with 80 priests (67 diocesan, 13 religious), 130 lay religious (41 brothers, 89 sisters) and 40 seminarians.
History
Established on April 28, 1914, as Apostolic Prefecture of Adamaua, an immense territory on the Adamawa Pateau, split off from the much vaster still Apostolic Vicariate of Khartoum, in the then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Renamed on June 11, 1923, as Apostolic Prefecture of Foumban, after its see F(o)umban.
Promoted on May 28, 1934, as Apostolic Vicariate of Foumban, hence entitled to a (titular) bishop.
It lost territory repeatedly :
on May 28, 1940, to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Berbérati (now a bishopric in Central African Republic)
April 28, 1942, to establish the then Apostolic Prefecture of Niamey (in Niger)
January 9, 1947, to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Garoua and Apostolic Prefecture of Fort-Lamy (Chad)
On September 14, 1955, it was promoted and renamed as Diocese of Nkongsamba after its present see.
Bishops
= Ordinaries
=(all Roman rite)
Apostolic Prefects of Adamaua
Father Gerhard Lennartz, Dehonians (S.C.I.) (April 29, 1914 – 1919)
Fr. Joseph Donatien Plissonneau, S.C.I. (February 7, 1920 – June 11, 1923 see below)
Apostolic Prefects of Foumban
Fr. Joseph Donatien Plissonneau, S.C.I. (see above June 11, 1923 – 1930)
Fr. Paul Bouque, S.C.I. (October 28, 1930 – May 28, 1934 see below)
Apostolic Vicar of Foumban
Paul Bouque, S.C.I. (see above May 28, 1934 – September 14, 1955 see below), Titular Bishop of Vagada
Suffragan Bishops of Nkongsamba
Paul Bouque, S.C.I. (see above September 14, 1955 – June 16, 1964), Titular Bishop of Abbir Germaniciana (June 16, 1964 – death August 11, 1976)
Albert Ndongmo (June 16, 1964 – January 29, 1973), first native incumbent
Thomas Nkuissi (November 15, 1978 – November 21, 1992)
Dieudonné Watio (April 1, 1995 – March 5, 2011), appointed Bishop of Bafoussam
Dieudonné Espoir Atangana (May 26, 2012 - ...)
= Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
=Abraham Boualo Kome, appointed Bishop of Bafang in 2012
See also
Roman Catholicism in Cameroon
References
External links
GCatholic.org
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafang
- List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
- Bafang
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Obala
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafoussam
- List of Catholic dioceses in Cameroon
- List of Catholic dioceses (alphabetical)
- Thomas Nkuissi
- Paul Bouque
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