Paul Verdzekov was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Bamenda in Cameroon.-History:* August 13, 1970: Established as Diocese of Bamenda from the Diocese of Buéa...

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

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Ordained to the priesthood on December 20, 1961, Paul Verdzekov was named bishop of the then Diocese of Bamenda on August 13, 1970 and was ordained bishop on November 8, 1970. The diocese became an archdiocese on March 18, 1982.

Archbishop Verdzekov retired on January 23, 2006. He died in 2010, aged 79, as Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda.