The Social Welfare/Caritas Coordination Service of the Archdiocese of Bamenda was created in May 2007 with the appointment of Benedicta Muffuh as the Archdiocesan Coordinator of the Service. The Service was charged with the promotion of the social welfare of the people and the better organization of the Charity of the Local Church of the […]
The Archdiocesan Education Secretariat, in general, ensures that schools and colleges in the Archdiocese are run smoothly on behalf of the proprietor, who is the Local Ordinary. It does this by ensuring the recruitment and employment of tutors and teachers in the whole Agency for Basic and Secondary Education. It carries out administrative duties and […]
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 […]
ERECTION OF THE DIOCESE Pope Paul VI, by the Bull Tametsi Christianarum of 13th August 1970, erected the Diocese of Bamenda with territory detached from the Diocese of Buea. On 18th March 1982, Pope John Paul II, by the Bull Eo Magis Ecclesia Catholica, created the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, making Bamenda the Metropolitan See […]
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BAMENDA When the Diocese of Bamenda was created on 13th August 1970, with territory detached from the former Diocese of Buea, it covered the whole territory of the North West Region of Cameroon and had a Catholic population of 129.984, spread over 22 parishes. On 18 March 1982, […]
The Archdiocesan Family Life Apostolate Activities of the Family Life Apostolate in the Archdiocese can be traced back as far as the coming of the faith into this area, considering the efforts of individual Priests encouraging young men and women to get married in Church in order to form Christian Families. Right from 1980, […]
The Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province Health Assistance (BEPHA) The Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province Health Assistance (BEPHA) scheme was effectively started in 2007 in order to make health care more accessible and more affordable. It is a mutual health insurance scheme initiated by the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda as their contribution towards the alleviation […]
The Archdiocesan Health Coordination Office This service was created on 31 October, 1999. There is an Archdiocesan Health Coordinator and a Medical Doctor who consults in the outreach health centres. The Archdiocesan Health Centres are directly the responsibility of the Coordination Office and are visited monthly for Doctor’s consultation and more often when deemed […]
The Archdiocesan Youth Ministry The Archdiocesan Youth Ministry is coordinated by the Archdiocesan Youth Chaplain. The youth groups are organized in an Archdiocesan Youth Federation whose main aim is to coordinate the activities of young people in the Archdiocese. The Youth Chaplain is assisted by a Youth Formation Team and a Youth Council, […]
The Archdiocesan Justice and Peace Service The Justice and Peace Commission was established in December 2002 in accordance with the provisions slated in the Provincial Pastoral Plan. It was first established as a Commission, and functioned as such for 4 years, and was later reorganized as an Archdiocesan Service in the year 2006 with […]
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