Kumbo now has a new Bishop

Emmanuel F. Sanosi

At 12.00 Noon today, Saturday July 8, the Christian community in Cameroon had reason to rejoice, as the Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, Mgr Eliseo Antonio Ariotti, announced over CRTV, the nomination by the Holy Father, of Rev Fr George Nkuo, as the new Bishop of Kumbo.

The announcement, actually made by the Archbishop of Yaounde, Mgr Victor Tonye Bakot who was standing in for the Nuncio, came as a great relief to especially the Lay Faithful of Kumbo, who have on several occasions, expressed their anxiety as they waited for a new Bishop.
Father George was until today, Catholic Education Secretary in the Diocese of Buea. He is taking over the Diocese of Kumbo from Mgr Cornelius Fontem Esua, who took over the Crosier from Archbishop Paul Verdzekov in the Archdiocese of Bamenda in January 2006.
Father Nkuo was ordianed in 1981 in the third batch of the St Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary in Bambui.