Pallottine mission to Kamerun

The Pallottine Mission to Kamerun (also spelled Pallotin or Pallotine) was a

Swiss-run Pallottines requested entry.^[1] Permission came with the following conditions: The Pallottines were not to compete directly with the already established Protestant Basel Mission, they were to accept no orders from any non-German authority, they were to employ only German or African staff, and they were to use and teach only the German language.^[2]

Eight Pallottine Fathers arrived in Douala on 25 October 1890 under the leadership of Father Heinrich Vieter.^[3] Presbyterian missionaries already operating there proved unfriendly to the newcomers, so the Pallottines based themselves at Marienberg, near Edéa.^[4] Over the next 13 years, the Fathers opened missions and schools in Kribi, Edéa, Bonjongo, Douala, Batanga, Jaunde, Ikassa, Minlaba, Sasse, Victoria-Bota, Dschang, Ossing (Mamfe), and in the district of Douala Deïdo. In 1899, they founded a convent in Bonjongo.^[2] The Pallottine Fathers won their first convert, Andreas Mbangue, in 1899.^[4]

When the Allied

Holy Ghost Fathers to replace the Pallottines as the Catholic mission to Cameroun.^[5]

The German Pallottines have returned to independent Cameroon in 1964.

Notes

^ DeLancey and DeLancey 70; Ngoh 92.
^ ^a ^b Ngoh 93.
^ Ngoh 92.
^ ^a ^b Ngoh 92–3.
^ DeLancey and DeLancey 70.

References

DeLancey, Mark W. and DeLancey, Mark Dike (2000): Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (3rd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
Ngoh, Victor Julius (1996): History of Cameroon Since 1800. Limbe: Presbook.

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