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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION The Archdiocese of Bamenda lies between the 5th and 7th latitudes North, and between the 9th and 11th degrees East longitude. It covers an area of 10.000 square kilometres. On three sides, the Archdiocese forms a fairly distinct geographical unit. It is marked off from the Upper Cross River Basin by a […]
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