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Mgr. Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon
BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF KUMBA
Bishop Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon, born February 11, 1964 in Shisong (Kumbo), is a Cameroonian Catholic prelate, the first bishop of the diocese of Kumba.
Bishop Agapitus was born on the 11th of February 1964 at Shisong Hospital (Kumbo). He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest, after completing studies in Saint Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary, on the 22nd of March 1991, at the age of 27. After serving as a Priest for 20 years, on April 8th, 2011 (while serving as Rector of the aforementioned Major Seminary), he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Bamenda by Benedict XVI. At the same time, he was also appointed Titular Bishop of Unizibira. On March 15, 2016, Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Kumba, the head of the diocese which had just been created, by the dismemberment of the diocese of Buea.
EPISCOPAL LINEAGE/APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF BISHOP AGAPITUS NFON
- Archbishop Piero Pioppo(2010)Titular Archbishop of Torcello
- Tarcisio Pietro Evasio CardinalBertone, S.D.B. (1991)Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
- Archbishop Albino Mensa† (1960)Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
- Bishop Gaudenzio Binaschi† (1930)Bishop of Pinerolo
- Bishop Giuseppe Castelli† (1911)Bishop of Novara
- Agostino CardinalRichelmy † (1886)Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
- Gaetano CardinalAlimonda † (1877)Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
- Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco† (1868)Archbishop of Genova
- Gustav Adolf Cardinalvon Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857)Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
- Pope Pius IX (1827)( Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti†)
- Francesco Saverio Maria Felice CardinalCastiglioni † (1800)Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
- Giuseppe Maria CardinalDoria Pamphilj † (1773)Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
- Buenaventura CardinalCórdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
- Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz† (1749)Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
- Archbishop Enrico Enríquez† (1743)Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
- Pope Benedict XIV (1724)(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini†)
- Pope Benedict XIII (1675)(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
- Paluzzo CardinalPaluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
- Ulderico CardinalCarpegna † (1630)Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
- Luigi CardinalCaetani † (1622)Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
- Ludovico CardinalLudovisi † (1621)Archbishop of Bologna
- Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale† (1604)Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
- Girolamo CardinalBernerio, O.P. † (1586)Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
- Giulio Antonio CardinalSantorio † (1566) Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
- Scipione CardinalRebiba †Titular Patriarch of Constantinople
Source(s):
b: Bollettino, 8 Apr 2011
ob: CB, 18 Apr 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 206, Number 17,066
ab: Bollettino, 15 Mar 2016