Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov
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Styles of Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov | |
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Reference style | The Most Reverend |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Monsignor |
Posthumous style | not applicable |
Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov (January 22, 1931 – January 26, 2010) was a Cameroonian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Bamenda, Cameroon from 1970 till 1982 and as archbishop from 1982 till 2006.
Life[]
Born in on January 22, 1931, Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov was ordained to the priesthood on December 20, 1961.
On August 13, 1970, he was appointed bishop of the newly created diocese of Bamenda. Verdzekov received his episcopal consecration on the following November 8 from , bishop of Buéa, with the then bishop of Garoua, , and the bishop of Sangmélima, Pierre-Célestin Nkou, serving as co-consecrators.
On March 18, 1982 he became archbishop of Bamenda when his diocese was elevated to archdiocese by Pope John Paul II. Archbishop Verdzekov retired on January 23, 2006. He died in 2010, aged 79, as Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda.[1]
References[]
- ^ Catholic Hierarchy website [self-published]
- 1931 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Africa
- 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Africa
- Cameroonian Roman Catholic archbishops
- People from Bamenda
- Roman Catholic archbishops of Bamenda
- Roman Catholic bishops of Bamenda