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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend John Berinyuy Tata, until now rector of the Catholic University of Cameroon in Bamenda, as auxiliary bishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bamenda, Cameroon.
Msgr. John Berinyuy Tata was born on 18 December 1975 in Mbuluf-Shisong, in the diocese of Kumbo. He studied philosophy and theology at Saint Thomas Aquinas Interdiocesan Major Seminary in Bambui, Bamenda.
He was ordained a priest on 30 March 2005.
After ordination, he held the roles of parish vicar of Saint Joseph in Bafut (2005-2006) and parish priest of Saint Patrick in Babanki-Tungo (2006-2010). He studied spirituality at the Dominican monastery of Bambui, and was awarded a doctorate in theology, specializing in Christian anthropology, at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum in Rome. He went on to serve as spiritual director and lecturer at Saint Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary in Bambui, chaplain of the diocesan Charismatic Movement, and, to date, rector of the Catholic University of Cameroon in Bamenda. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 13/2/2026)
