ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL SITUATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE Parish Finances from 2014 to 2021 Generally speaking, since the last Quinquennial Report, our financial situation has improved, especially with the increasing creation of awareness in the minds of many Christians to assume their duties and responsibilities in the Church. Following the recommendation of St. John […]
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SPIRITUAL LIFE AND GROWTH OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BAMENDA SPIRITUAL LIFE AND GROWTH OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BAMENDA Administration of the Sacraments of Christian Initiation and of Anointing of the Sick The statistics below about the administration of the sacraments according to the various parishes are gleaned from the Sacred Returns since […]
ECCLESIASTICAL CIRCUMSCRIPTIONS Due to the steady growth of the Christian population and the fact that the Archdiocese still has huge areas of primary evangelization, there is the urgent necessity to carve out new ecclesiastical circumscriptions in order to bring the Gospel to those who have not yet heard it, and to provide better pastoral […]
The Focolare Movement The Focolare Movement, also known as the Work of Mary, has two communities in the Archdiocese of Bamenda: one for the Male Branch – the Focolarini – in St. John the Baptist Parish, Foncha Street, Nkwen and the other for the Female Branch – the Focolarine – in St. Pius […]
Members of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life Male Clerical and Non-Clerical Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life Male Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in the Archdiocese at the Period covered by this Report are: Mill Hill Missionaries The […]
Diocesan Clergy There are 136 Diocesan Priests incardinated into the Archdiocese of Bamenda working along with the Religious and Diocesan Priests from other Dioceses. Since 2014, 68 priests have been ordained for the Archdiocese of Bamenda. We render immense thanks to God for the increase in the number of vocations to the Priesthood. At the […]
APOSTOLIC WORKERS AND THEIR COLLABORATORS CLERGY Diocesan Clergy There are 136 Diocesan Priests incardinated into the Archdiocese of Bamenda working along with the Religious and Diocesan Priests from other Dioceses. Since 2014, 68 priests have been ordained for the Archdiocese of Bamenda. We render immense thanks to God for the increase in the number […]
ARCHDIOCESAN SERVICES Since the last Quinquennial Report, we have reorganized a number of services at the level of the Archdiocese, which are the executive arm of the Pastoral Plan. They facilitate the execution of the decisions and policies taken at the level of the Archdiocese and by the Pastoral Commissions. We shall look at […]
PASTORAL ORGANISATION The Provincial Pastoral Plan The Pastoral Organisation of the Archdiocese of Bamenda is based on the Provincial Pastoral Plan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda that was conceived after the 7th Catholic Convention in 1999 and revised in 2009. It is the result of the reflection on the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation […]
ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION The Local Ordinary and his Immediate Collaborators 1.1. The Local Ordinary Name: Most Rev. Andrew Fuanya Nkea Date of Birth: 29/08/1965 Place of Birth: Widikum Nationality: Cameroonian Priestly Ordination: 22nd April 1992 in Regina Caeli Cathedral, Small Soppo by Right Reverend Pius Suh Awa, Bishop […]
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