Diocese of Yokadouma
Yokaduman(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yokadouma, Cameroon
The Diocese of Yokadouma is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in eastern Cameroon, erected on 20 May 1991 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bertoua. Its bishop, Justin Georges Ebengue, was appointed in January 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 May 1991
- Latin
- Yokaduman(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady Queen of Peace
- Annuario code
- 001000206
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 25,600
- Population
- 164,000
- Catholic share
- 15.6%
- Priests
- 20
- Catholics per priest
- 1,280
- Extent
- 30,476 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.8
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Justin Georges Ebengue
- Born
- 18 May 1970
- Birthplace
- Mpong par Evodoula
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
Cathedrale Marie Reine de la Paix, Yokadouma stands in Yokadouma, 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 Bertoua
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bertoua.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BertouaBertoua
- Diocese of BatouriBatouri
- Diocese of Doumé–Abong’ MbangDoumé–Abong’ Mbang
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan Latin see in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Bertoua in Eastern Cameroon, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokadouma (Latin: Yokaduman(a)) nonetheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal seat is the Cathédrale Marie Reine de la Paix in the city of Yokadouma, dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 33, Yokadouma, La Boumba-et-Ngoko, Cameroun
- Telephone
- 652.463.913; 690.410.002
- [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].