Pallottine mission in Cameroon
The Pallottine Mission in Cameroon (also called Pallotin or Pallotine ) was a Cameroonian Roman Catholic mission of the German Empire to the colony of Cameroon , operated by the Pallottines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
When the German Empire became the colonial power of Cameroon in 1884, German missionaries were able to begin setting up their missions in the country even more strongly than before. However, the Germans only allowed Protestants and no Catholics into the country. However, this practice was abandoned two years later when the Pallottines from Germany and Switzerland requested entry. Permission was granted under the following conditions: The Pallottines should not be in direct competition with the Protestant Basel Mission , they should not accept orders from non-German authorities, they should only employ German or local staff and they should only use the German language or native languages and teach.
Eight Pallottine priests arrived in Duala on October 25, 1890 under the leadership of Father Heinrich Vieter . Presbyterian missionaries who operated there were unfriendly to the newcomers, so the Pallottines were founded in Marienberg near Edéa . Over the next 13 years, the Father Missions and Schools opened in Kribi , Edéa, Bonjongo , Duala, Batanga , Jaunde , Ikassa , Minlaba , Sasse , Victoria-Bota , Dschang , Ossing ( Mamfe ) and in the Deido district of Duala. In 1889 they founded a new Bonjongo monastery. The Pallottine priests registered their first convent, Andreas Mbangue , in 1899.
When the Allied West African Campaign of World War I reached Yaounde in 1916, the Pallottines fled south to Spanish Guinea together with German forces and Ewondo villagers under the command of Karl Atangana . Germany lost the war, and Cameroon was divided into a British and a French mandate area as League of Nations mandate areas. The French rulers opted to use their own Spiritans to replace the Pallottines and the Catholic Mission in Cameroon.
The German and Swiss Pallottines returned to independent Cameroon in 1964.
literature
- DeLancey, Mark W. and DeLancey, Mark Dike (2000): Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (3rd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
- Ngoh, Victor Julius (1996): History of Cameroon Since 1800 . Limbe: Presbook.