Bishop Jean-Bosco Ntep

Bishop Emeritus of Edéa, Cameroon

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Apr 1951		Born
25 Mar 1979	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 Mar 1993	41.9	Appointed	Bishop of Eséka, Cameroon
4 Jul 1993	42.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Eséka, Cameroon
15 Oct 2004	53.5	Appointed	Bishop of Edéa, Cameroon
4 Dec 2004	53.6	Installed	Bishop of Edéa, Cameroon
4 Jun 2026	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Edéa, Cameroon

MicroData Summary
Jean-Bosco Ntep
Bishop Jean-Bosco Ntep
(born 3 Apr 1951)
Bishop Emeritus of Edéa

Ad Limina - March 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Hikoamaen
Ordained Bishop Eséka, Diocese of Eséka

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Edéa.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Christian Wiyghan Cardinal Tumi †
Archbishop of Douala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló
Titular Archbishop of Tamada
Bishop André Wouking †
Bishop of Bafoussam

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Christian Wiyghan Cardinal Tumi † (1980)
Archbishop of Douala
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei (2010)
Bishop François Achille Eyabi (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Hikoamaen
Ordained Bishop	Eséka, Diocese of Eséka

External Link(s):

VIAF: 209112633
WikiData: Q1684706

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,158
op/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 139
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 248, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 4 Jun 2026

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