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Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 14 March 2006 appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Cameroon for a five year term (2006-2011) Rev. Gaspard Mengata Nka of the clergy of the archdiocese of Yaoundé.
Rev. Gaspard Mengata Nka was born at Zoétélé on 14 February 1970. He was ordained a priest in 2001. He attended high school in Yaounde (1987/1990) and then enrolled at the faculty of science at Yaounde University (1990/92). After a preparatory year (1992/1993) he studied at the Catholic University of Central Africa (1993/1995), and spent a period of pastoral experience at Bonneau Ebolowa college (1995/1996). From 1996 to 2000 he lived at Nkolbisson Major Seminary and studied at the Catholic University of Central Africa, obtaining licentiates in philosophy in (1995) theology (2000). He served in various parishes and since 2004 has been bursar at Nkolbisson major seminary, diocesan director of vocations pastoral, diocesan chaplain of the
