Cameroon: Apostolic Nuncio launches Pastoral Year

The Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, Monsignor Piero Pioppo launched the pastoral year on Saturday in Eséka. Cameroon Concord understands the Right Rev. Piero Pioppo took the opportunity during a pastoral visit in the Eseka diocese to launch the pastoral year 2015-2016 under the sign of mercy by His Holiness Pope Francis. 

The holy event that witnessed the participation of various parishes of the diocese also culminated to a historic Eucharistic celebration in the Cathedral of Our Lady Fatima. Prominent among Cameroonian dignitaries was Catherine Bakang Mbock, Minister of Social Affairs including other administrative authorities. The bishop of the diocese His Lordship Bishop Dieudonné Bogmis and his vicar general, Bishop Emile Martin Dibongué assisted the chief celebrant Monsignor Piero Pioppo during the Holy Mass.

Created in 1993 following some administrative adjustments carried out by the Holy Father in the Archdiocese of Douala; the Diocese of Eséka has 35 parishes. The Apostolic Nuncio in his homily revisited the history of the evangelization of the city of Eséka that developed with the Spiritan Fathers in 1920.