Diocese of Nkongsamba
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Douala in Cameroon.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale de l’Immaculée Conception, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception at Nkongsamba, in Moungo Department in the Littoral Region (Cameroon).
Statistics
As of 2014, it pastorally served 148,062 Catholics on 4,057 km2 in 505 parishes, 3 missions with 80 priests, 130 lay religious and 40 seminarians.History
Established on April 28, 1914, as Apostolic Prefecture of Adamaua, an immense territory on the Adamawa Pateau, split off from the much vaster still Apostolic Vicariate of Khartoum, in the then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.Renamed on June 11, 1923, as Apostolic Prefecture of Foumban, after its see Fumban.
Promoted on May 28, 1934, as Apostolic Vicariate of Foumban, hence entitled to a bishop.
It lost territory repeatedly :
- on May 28, 1940, to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Berbérati
- April 28, 1942, to establish the then Apostolic Prefecture of Niamey
- January 9, 1947, to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Garoua and Apostolic Prefecture of Fort-Lamy
Bishops
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefects of Adamaua- Father Gerhard Lennartz, Dehonians
- Fr. Joseph Donatien Plissonneau, S.C.I.
- Fr. Joseph Donatien Plissonneau, S.C.I.
- Fr. Paul Bouque, S.C.I.
- Paul Bouque, S.C.I., Titular Bishop of Vagada
- Paul Bouque, S.C.I., Titular Bishop of Abbir Germaniciana
- Albert Ndongmo, first native incumbent
- Thomas Nkuissi
- Dieudonné Watio, appointed Bishop of Bafoussam
- Dieudonné Espoir Atangana
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Abraham Boualo Kome, appointed Bishop of Bafang in 2012