Diocese of Bafia
| Diocese of Bafia | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Cameroon |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Yaoundé |
| Diocesan bishop | Emmanuel Dessi Youfang |
| founding | 1965 |
| surface | 34,615 km² |
| Parishes | 41 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Residents | 482,675 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Catholics | 255.998 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| proportion of | 53% |
| Diocesan priest | 40 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Religious priest | 18 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 4,414 |
| Friars | 28 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Religious sisters | 48 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
English French |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafia ( lat. : Dioecesis Bafiensis ) is in Cameroon situated Roman Catholic diocese with seat in Bafia .
history
The diocese of Bafia was on July 6, 1965 by Pope Paul VI. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quo lex Evangelica from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Yaoundé as the Apostolic Prefecture of Bafia . On January 11, 1968, the Apostolic Prefecture Bafia was by Paul VI. with the Apostolic Constitution Adorandi Dei Filii raised to the diocese and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Yaoundé as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefects of Bafia
- 1965–1968 André Charles Lucien Loucheur CSSp
Bishops of Bafia
- 1968–1977 André Charles Lucien Loucheur CSSp
- 1977-2003 Athanase Bala CSSp
- 2003–2017 Jean-Marie Benoît Balla
- 2017–2020 Abraham Kome ( Apostolic Administrator )
- since 2020 Emmanuel Dessi Youfang
See also
Web links
- Entry on the diocese of Bafia on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 13, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Quo lex Evangelica , AAS 58 (1966), n.4, pp. 272f.
- ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Adorandi Dei Filii , AAS 60 (1968), n.6 , p. 317ff.