The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafang is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the

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of the Metropolitan

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Douala in Cameroon. The current archbishop is Archbishop Samuel Kleda; he had previously been the coadjutor archbishop to the Archbishop Emeritus ...

, also in

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. Yet it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its

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episcopal see is the Cathédrale du Cœur-Immaculé de Marie, dedicated to the

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, 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 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba ( la, 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 Imma ...

, 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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