The Local Ordinary and his Immediate Collaborators

1. 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:                         22^nd April 1992 in Regina Caeli Cathedral, Small Soppo by Right Reverend Pius Suh Awa, Bishop of Buea.

Episcopal Ordination:                     Ordained in Mamfe on 23^rd August 2013 as the second Bishop of the Diocese of Mamfe. Consecrated by the Most Rev.  Piero Pioppo Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea

Coadjutor Bishop of Mamfe:                   23^rd August 2013 – 24^th January 2014

Bishop of Mamfe:                            25^th January 2014

Appointed Archbishop of Bamenda: 29^th December 2019

Taking of Canonical Possession:           Saturday, 22^nd February 2020.

Mother Tongue:                               Nweh

Other Languages:                          English, French, Italian and Pidgin English

Place of Residence:                       Bamenda

Postal Address:                              Archbishop’s House, P.O. Box 82, Bamenda, North West Region,

Republic of Cameroon

Telephone:                                                (00237) 33361241

Fax:                                                   (00237) 33361241

Supra-Diocesan Appointments:    Vice-President of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon: 2020; Member of the Standing Committee of the National Episcopal Conference, 2020; Member of the Council for the Synod on Synodality: 2020 till date; Registrar of Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda (CATUC): 2010-2013; Vice-President of the Bamanda Provincial Episcopal Conference (BAPEC); President of the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference (BAPEC): 2021…