Diocese of Obala, Cameroon 🇨🇲

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Obala / Obalan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Yaoundé

Neighbouring Dioceses: Eséka (↙), Bafia (↑), Bertoua (→), Doumé–Abong’ Mbang (→), Yaoundé (↓)

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1987.07.03: Established as Diocese of Obala / Obalan(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yaoundé and became suffragan of Yaoundé)

Bishop (2009.12.03 – ...):

Bishop Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei (61)

Bishops of Obala (Roman Rite)

Bishop Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei (61)
(2009.12.03 – ...)

Bishop of Obala (Cameroon)

Priest of Eséka (Cameroon) (1994.02.12 – 2009.12.03)

Bishop of Obala (Cameroon) (2009.12.03 – ...)

Bishop Jérôme Owono-Mimboe
(1987.07.03 – 2009.12.03)

Bishop of Obala (Cameroon) (1987.07.03 – 2009.12.03)

Area: 14,849 km²

Population: 578,000 Catholics (58.9% of 981,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 62 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 168 priests (124 diocesan, 44 religious), 281 religious (187 brothers, 94 sisters), 78 seminarians