San José de Bafoussam — La catedral del oeste de Camerún
The Bafoussam Cathedral is dedicated to San José and is the seat of the diocese erected in 1970, suffranea of Duala. The diocese has some 308,000 Catholics in 98 parishes in the upper lands of western Cameroon.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The Cathedral of San José is the mother temple of a diocese of 13,000 square kilometres in the west of Cameroon.
- The diocesan community is alive and numerous: 98 parishes, 177 priests, 289 religious and 62 seminarians.
- Among his pastors is André Wouking, Bishop of Bafoussam between 1979 and 1998, then called to be Archbishop of Yaoundé.
- A few kilometres from the cathedral is the Marian shrine of Notre- Dame de Doumelong, a sign of devotion to the Virgin in the diocese.
Catedral de Bafoussam (San José)
In Bafoussam the young Church of Africa entrusts its way to St. Joseph: a diocese of just half a century that already brings together hundreds of thousands of faithful, with the Virgin venerated in her shrine of Doumelong.
Par. San José, a provident father, and Santa Maria de Doumelong, support the Church of Cameroon.
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