Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafang

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafang is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala, also in Cameroon.

Yet 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[]

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[]

The bishopric was established on 2012.05.26 -without a formal missionary stage- as Diocese of Bafang on territory split off from the Diocese of Nkongsamba, in the same province.

Ordinaries[]

Its first and only incumbent is

• Abraham Kome (2012.05.26 – ...), a secular Priest born 1969.07.02 in Cameroon, Ordained 1999.12.11, Consecrated Bishop 2012.07.15.

External links and sources[]

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