Pius Suh Awa

Pius Suh Awa (born May 4, 1930 in Bamenda ; † February 9, 2014 ) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Buéa .

Life

Pius Suh Awa attended schools in Mankon, Bafut and Njindom (1938–1944) and in Njindom (1945–1947). He entered the minor seminary at Sasse College in 1952 and moved to the Bigard Memorial Seminary in Enugu, Nigeria in 1955. He completed further studies in Rome, where he was ordained a priest on December 21, 1961 . In 1962 he returned to Cameroon and was a pastor in Kumba. In 1964/65 he was a supervisor in Catholic schools in West Cameroon. In 1968 he was appointed vicar general in the diocese of Buéa.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on February 20, 1971 Coadjutor Bishop of Buéa with the right of succession and Titular Bishop of Auzegera . The Bishop of Buéa, Julius Joseph Willem Peeters MHM , donated him episcopal ordination on May 30, 1971 ; Co- consecrators were Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov , Bishop of Bamenda , and Pierre-Célestin Nkou , Bishop of Sangmélima . His election motto was "Ut Cognoscant Te" ("That they know you").

After Julius Joseph Willem Peeters' resignation, he succeeded him as Bishop of Buéa on January 29, 1973.

In 1973 he initiated the establishment of the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Bambui and in 1980 the establishment of a mission station for the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus HHCJ. In 1985 he founded the Congregation of the Brothers of Martín de Porres (Congregation of the Brothers of St. Martin de Porres). In 1994 he made the settlement of Mexican Carmelites possible .

On November 30, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related retirement.

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• Cameroon Year Book 1973 , 1973, p. 53

Web links

• Entry on Pius Suh Awa on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 11, 2014.
• Emeritus Bishop of Buea Pius Awa turns 80

predecessor	Office	successor
Julius Joseph Willem Peeters MHM	Bishop of Buéa 1973-2006	Emmanuel Bushu