Trappist monastery Koutaba
The monastery Koutaba (lat. Monasterium Beatae Mariae de Koutaba ; double. Monastère Notre Dame de Koutaba ) since 1968, a monastery of Trappist monks in Koutaba in the district Noun in Cameroon , Diocese of Bafoussam .
history
The French Trappist monastery Aiguebelle founded the daughter monastery Notre-Dame d'Afrique (Our Lady of Africa) in Minlaba in Mengueme in Cameroon in 1951 , which was moved to Obout in Nkolmetet in 1955 . There it changed name in 1957 and was called Notre-Dame de Grandselve (after the Grandselve monastery, which was dissolved by the French Revolution ). In 1968 the Trappists moved on to Koutaba in the Noun district and founded the Notre-Dame de Koutaba monastery there , which was elevated to a priory in 1988 . In Obout they were followed by Trappist women from the French monastery of La Coudre from Laval and also adopted the name of Notre-Dame de Grandselve .
Upper
- Marie Moullin (1951–1952)
- Aelred Girardon (1952–1956) (1989–1995 Abbot of Aiguebelle)
- Pierre Faye (1956–1960, 1966–1974)
- Etienne Desroches (1960–1964)
- Henri Parisot (1964–1966)
- Hubert d'Hamonville (1974–1979)
- Georges Delomier (1979–1994, 2007–2008)
- Claude Richard (1994–1997)
- Charles Amihere (1997-1998)
- Germain Mbida Mbida (1998-2007)
- Etienne Harding Mboule (2014-2017)
- Henri Fouda (CSSp)
literature
- Charbel Gravrand: Fils de Saint Bernard en Afrique. Une fondation au Cameroun, 1951–1988. Beauchesne, Paris 1990.
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