Suffragan diocese Batouri, Cameroon
Diocese of Batouri
Baturien(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Batouri is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in eastern Cameroon, erected in 1994 from territory of the Diocese of Bertoua. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Bertoua.
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- Established
- 1994
- Catholics
- 47,000
- Priests
- 34
- Territory
- 15,981 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Marcellin-Marie Ndabnyemb
- Born
- 2 June 1965
- Birthplace
- Logbikoy
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The cathedral
Cathedrale Notre-Dame de l'Immaculee Conception stands in Batouri, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Batouri, a city in Cameroon's ecclesiastical province of Bertoua, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Baturien(sis)) centered on the Cathédrale Notre-Dame there. Its territory spans 15,981 square kilometers and holds 205,000 inhabitants, of whom 47,000 are Catholics, served by 11 parishes and 27 priests (21 diocesan, 2 religious, and 4 Fidei donum), alongside 13 religious brothers, 17 seminarians, and 31 religious sisters.