Joseph Djida

Joseph Djida OMI (born April 8, 1945 in Mayo-Darlé , † January 6, 2015 in Ngaoundéré ) was Bishop of Ngaoundéré .

Life

Joseph Djida, son of a Catholic father and a Muslim woman, studied philosophy and theology at the seminary in Ngaoundéré and Nkolbisson, and in 1972 he joined the order of the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary . After completing his studies at the seminary in Koumi , Burkina Faso , he was ordained a priest on December 5, 1976 . He was initially a chaplain at the Cathedral in Garoua (1976-81) and then completed a master's degree in theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa . In 1991 he received his doctorate in moral theology at the Pontifical Alfonsian Academy in Rome . Back in Cameroon, he became involved in the formation of the diocesan clergy and taught at the Catholic Institute of Yaoundé and at the St. Augustus Major Seminary in Maroua, where he was rector from 1994 to 1997. He was the first native provincial of his order in Cameroon.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Ngaoundéré on October 23, 2000 . The apostolic nuncio in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea , Félix del Blanco Prieto , donated him the episcopal ordination on February 25 of the next year; Co- consecrators were Antoine Ntalou , Archbishop of Garoua , and Eugeniusz Juretzko OMI, Bishop of Yokadouma . Among other things, he was President of the Bishops' Conference of Cameroon.

Joseph Djida died of complications from a heart attack.

Web links

• Entry on Joseph Djida on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on January 8, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mgr Joseph Djida n'est plus , Cameroon Tribune, January 7, 2014 (fr)

predecessor	Office	successor
Jean-Marie-Joseph-Augustin Pasquier OMI	Bishop of Ngaoundéré 2000–2015	Emmanuel Abbo