The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokadouma ( la, Yokaduman(a)) is a

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Latin

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in the

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of the Metropolitan of

Bertoua Bertoua is the capital of the Eastern Region of Cameroon and of the Lom-et-Djerem Department. It has a population of 88,462 (at the 2005 Census), and is the traditional home of the Gbaya people. It is home to an airport and Mission Cameroon (in ...

in Eastern

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, yet depends on the missionary

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. Its

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episcopal see is Cathédrale Marie Reine de la Paix, dedicated to

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, in the city of

Yokadouma Yokadouma is a town and Catholic bishopric in eastern Cameroon, lying near the border with the Central African Republic. It was an early French administrative centre. During the colonial period, Yokadouma was the centre for a widespread but ill-f ...

History

It was established on May 20, 1991 as Diocese of Yokadouma, on territory split off from the

Diocese of Bertoua The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bertoua is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Bertoua in Cameroon. History * 1983.03.17: Established as Diocese of Bertoua from the Diocese of Doumé * 1994.11.11: Promoted as Metropolita ...

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 20,050 Catholics (13.6% of 147,054 total) on 30,467 km² in 14 parishes with 21 priests (16 diocesan, 5 religious), 38 lay religious (6 brothers, 32 sisters) and 5 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) Suffragan Bishops of Yokadouma: *

Eugeniusz Juretzko Eugeniusz Juretzko (25 December 1939 – 16 January 2018) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Juretzko was born in Poland and was ordained to the priesthood in 1964. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokadouma, Cameroon, from 19 ...

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(O.M.I.) (born Poland) (20 May 1991 - 25 April 2017) * Paul Lontsié-Keuné (first native incumbent) (25 April 2017 – 27 November 2021), no previous prelature

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Roman Catholic dioceses in Cameroon Roman Catholic dioceses established in 1991 1991 establishments in Cameroon Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Bertoua {{Africa-RC-diocese-stub

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