By
Amindeh Blaise Atabong in Yaounde
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| Mgr Jean Mbarga |
Monsignor Jean Mbarga has been appointed by Pope
Francis I as the new metropolitan archbishop of Yaounde.
Thousands of christians received the news last
Friday; the same day he was appointed, when the apostolic nuncio to Cameroon
and Equatorial Guinea, Mgr Piero Pioppo read the pontifical decision at the Our
Lady of Victory cathedral in Yaounde.
Prior to Jean Mbarga’s appointment, he served
cumulatively as the bishop of Ebolowa and the apostolic administrator of the
Yaounde archdiocese.
Mbarga’s appointment comes following the resignation
of Archbishop Tonyé Bakot on July 26, 2013 in accordance Canon 401 paragraph 2.
It is worth noting that Jean Mbarga was born on May 18, 1956 in Ebolmedzo. After seminary formation, he was ordained priest on December 5, 1981.
It is worth noting that Jean Mbarga was born on May 18, 1956 in Ebolmedzo. After seminary formation, he was ordained priest on December 5, 1981.
Several years after, precisely on October 15, 2004, he was elevated to
the rank of bishop and assigned to the then Ebolowa-Kribi diocese by Pope John
Paul II. On July 2013, Pope Francis I appointed him apostolic administrator of
Yaounde
Mbarga is going to be the 5th archbishop of Yaounde with a
catholic christian population of about 903,000. The
archdiocese of Yaounde has a total of 414 priests serving 132 parishes.
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