Diocese of Doumé-Abong 'Mbang
Diocese of Doumé-Abong 'Mbang | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Cameroon |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Bertoua |
Diocesan bishop | Jan Ozga |
Vicar General | Aloys Nkoua Kek |
founding | 1949 |
surface | 36,378 km² |
Parishes | 25 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 272,800 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 131,200 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 48.1% |
Diocesan priest | 23 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 3,644 |
Friars | 20 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 36 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language |
English French |
The diocese Doumé-Abong 'Mbang ( lat. : Dioecesis Dumensis-Abongensis-Mbangensis ) is in Cameroon situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Doumé .
history
The diocese Doumé-Abong 'Mbang was on March 3, 1949 by Pope Pius XII. Established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Yaoundé as Apostolic Vicariate Doumé . On September 14, 1955, the Vicariate Apostolic Doumé was by Pius XII. raised to a diocese with the Apostolic Constitution Dum tantis and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Yaoundé as a suffragan . The Diocese of Doumé gave up on March 17, 1983 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Bertoua . On March 17, 1983, the Doumé diocese was renamed Doumé-Abong 'Mbang . The diocese Doumé-Abong 'Mbang was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Bertoua as a suffragan on November 11, 1994.
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Doumé
- René Graffin CSSp , 1949–1951
- Jacques Teerenstra CSSp, 1951–1955
Bishops of Doumé
- Jacques Teerenstra CSSp, 1955–1961
- Lambertus Johannes van Heygen CSSp, 1962–1983, then Bishop of Bertoua
Bishops of Doumé-Abong 'Mbang
- Pierre Augustin Tchouanga SCJ , 1983-1995
- Jan Ozga , since 1997