Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafang
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafang is a Latin Catholic suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Douala in Cameroon.
Though it is a suffragan diocese, it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale du Cœur-Immaculé de Marie, dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Bafang, in the Haut-Nkam department of the West Province, Cameroon.
Statistics
[edit]As per 2014, it pastorally serves 124,193 Catholics (42.5% of 292,387 total) on 7,229 km2 in 25 parishes and 91 missions. It had 34 priests (diocesan), 11 lay religious (sisters) and 12 seminarians.
History
[edit]The diocese was established on 26 May 2012 -without a formal missionary stage- as Diocese of Bafang on territory split off from the Diocese of Nkongsamba, in the same province.
Ordinaries
[edit]Its first and only incumbent is
- Abraham Kome (26 May 2012 – ...), born 2 July 1969 in Cameroon, Ordained a priest on 11 December 1999, Consecrated Bishop on 15 July 2012.
External links and sources
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