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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 […]

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 […]

ADMINISTRATIVE AND PASTORAL ORGANISATION     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 […]

CIVIL ADMINISTRATION   The Region is headed by a Governor whose seat of administration is at Bamenda. Each Division is headed by a Senior Divisional Officer (S.D.O). Within each Division, there are Sub-Divisions, each of which is headed by a Divisioner Officer (D.O). All these Officials fall under the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation. […]

RELIGIOUS SITUATION   As already mentioned above, in a population estimated at, a little over, 1.482.453, the number of Catholics is estimated at 620,513 of the total number of inhabitants in the Archdiocese. This is about 41.857 per cent of the population.   There are two Protestant ecclesial communities: The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) […]

DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION   According to the information from the International Institute for Statistics, Cameroon has a total population of 22.522.950 (unpublished census of December 2019). It is divided into 10 Administrative Regions which are further divided into Divisions or Departments. The North West Region, with Bamenda as the Capital, covers an area of 17.300 square […]

SOCIO – ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES   The overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the Archdiocese consist of self-employed farmers. Industrial activity is virtually non-existent. The cultivation of local food products such as maize, vegetables, potatoes, beans, yams, cassava, etc., has become increasingly very important over the years and constitutes the mainstay of the economic life of […]