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Metropolitan Archdiocese of

Bamenda

Cameroon Cameroon

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese

Suffragan Sees: Buéa, Kumbo, Mamfe

History

  • 1970.08.13: Established as Diocese of Bamenda / Bamendan(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Buéa)
  • 1982.03.18: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bamenda / Bamendan(us) (Latin) (lost territory to establish Diocese of Kumbo)

Special Churches

Present Prelates

Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Bamenda (Roman Rite)

Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua (67)Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua (67)
(2006.01.23 – ...)

Born:1943.07.02 (Cameroon)
Ordained Priest:1971.12.29
Consecrated Bishop:1982.12.08

Bishop of Kumbo (Cameroon) (1982.09.10 – 2004.12.07)

President of Conférence Episcopale Nationale du Cameroun (C.E.N.C.) (2000 – 2004)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Bamenda (Cameroon) (2004.12.07 – 2006.01.23)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bamenda (Cameroon) (2006.01.23 – ...)

Archbishop Paul Verdzekov
(1982.03.18 – 2006.01.23)

Born:1931.01.22 (Cameroon)
Ordained Priest:1961.12.20
Consecrated Bishop:1970.11.08
Died:2010.01.26 († 79)

Bishop of Bamenda (Cameroon) (1970.08.13 – 1982.03.18)

President of Conférence Episcopale Nationale du Cameroun (C.E.N.C.) (1976 – 1982)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bamenda (Cameroon) (1982.03.18 – 2006.01.23)

Bishops of Bamenda (Roman Rite)

Bishop Paul Verdzekov (later Archbishop)
(1970.08.13 – 1982.03.18)

(see above)

Former Prelates

as of 2010.07.20

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