Yokadouma diocese
| Yokadouma diocese | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Cameroon |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Bertoua |
| Diocesan bishop | Paul Lontsié-Keuné |
| founding | 1991 |
| surface | 30,467 km² |
| Parishes | 14 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 147.054 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 20,050 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 13.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 16 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 5 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 955 |
| Friars | 6 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 32 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
English French |
The diocese Yokadouma ( Latin Dioecesis Yokadumana ) is in Cameroon situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Yokadouma .
history
The diocese of Yokadouma was established on May 20, 1991 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Quod Venerabiles from cessions of territory from the diocese of Bertoua and subordinated to the archdiocese of Yaoundé as a suffragan . On November 11, 1994, the diocese of Yokadouma was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Bertoua as a suffragan.
Bishops of Yokadouma
- 1991-2017 Eugeniusz Juretzko OMI
- 2017– Paul Lontsié-Keuné
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Quod Venerabiles , AAS 83 (1991), n.10, pp. 868f.