Diocese of Mbalmayo
Mbalmayoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mbalmayo, Cameroon
Latin rite diocese in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, erected on June 24, 1961, from the Archdiocese of Yaounde, of which it is a suffragan. Bishop Joseph-Marie Ndi-Okalla has led it since December 2016.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 June 1961
- Latin
- Mbalmayoën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002197
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 198,216
- Priests
- 113
- Catholics per priest
- 1,754
- Extent
- 11,664 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 17
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Joseph Marie Ndi-Okalla
- Born
- 21 November 1957
- Birthplace
- Douala
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Mbalmayo Cathedral stands in Mbalmayo, 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.
The province of Yaounde
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Yaounde.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of YaoundéYaoundé
- Diocese of EbolowaEbolowa
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Cameroonian city of Mbalmayo gives its name to a Catholic diocese (Latin: Mbalmayoën(sis)) within the ecclesiastical province of Yaoundé.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 320, Mbalmayo, Cameroun
- Telephone
- 677.729.609
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].