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Episcopal Conference of Cameroon
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The National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon (French: Conférence Episcopal Nationale du Cameroun, CENC) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in Cameroon. The origins date back to the missionaries of the Pallottines, who were the first to feel the need to meet to discuss issues related to the evangelization of the country. The CENC is a member of the Association of Regional Conferences of the Region of Central Africa and Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
History
In September 1906 in Douala gathered vicars apostolic and missionary in Cameroon than in a missionary synod, which was repeated at the beginning of 1914. The First World War and the expulsion of the German missionaries from the country, the outlook changed. In fact the mission in Cameroon, after the world war, was divided in two: the missions depended Anglophone Nigeria, while the Francophone Central Africa. In June 1949, held in Yaounde, the first plenary lecture of the Ordinaries of the missions of the French-speaking Cameroon: five bishops took part under the chairmanship of the Apostolic Delegate. A second conference, this time with all the ordinaries of the country, was held in Nkongsamba in April 1955: by this time the meetings were held regularly apostolic vicars. The Second Vatican Council gave great impetus to the formation of the episcopal conferences: the Cameroonian bishops met several times in Rome, on November 24, 1962, and officially founded the Episcopal Conference of Cameroon, who today took the official name in 1972 to its constitution, drawn up already this year, were approved by the Holy See in 1986.
List of presidents of the Bishops' Conference
1962–1976: Abo Jean Zoa of Yaoundé
1976–1982: Abp. Paul Verdzekov of Bamenda
1982–1985: Jean Zoa, of Yaoundé
1985–1991: Abp. Christian Wiyghan Tumi, of Garoua
1991–1994: Bishop Jean-Baptiste Ama, of the Diocese of Ebolowa-Kribi
1994–2000: Bishop (later Archbishop) André Wouking, Bishop of Bafoussam, later Yaoundé
2000–2004: Bishop Cornelius Fontem Esua, of Kumbo
2004–2010: Archbishop Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot, of Yaoundé
2010–2013: Archbishop Joseph Atanga, S.J., of Bertoua
2013–2019: Archbishop Samuel Kleda, of Douala
2019–2022: Bishop Abraham Boualo Kome, of Bafang
from April 30, 2022: Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya, of Bamenda
This record is provisional: it was compiled from the cited sources but has not yet been checked by an InsideKamer editor.
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