Bamenda, 01 December, 2023 / 8:30 pm (ACI Africa).
St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary Bambui (STAMS) in Cameroon’s Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda has been lauded for producing “true pastors of souls” in its 50 years of existence.
In his homily during the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of STAMS on Friday, December 1, Archbishop Andrew Fuanya Nkea of Bamenda said, “Within the past 50 years, what was planted as mustard seed, has grown into a big tree.”
“Beginning with the original 12 seminarians, this seminary has within the last 50 years admitted 1, 355 students 791 of whom were ordained Priests and 52 Deacons making a total of 843 Clergymen,” Archbishop Nkea said during the Mass that was presided over by Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt, Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
He added, “This seminary has also produced dedicated and committed laymen who are good citizens, responsible parents and practicing Christians.”
“For all these 50 years this seminary has produced Priests after the example of Christ and has produced true pastors of souls for the ministry of teaching, sanctifying and ruling the people of God,” the Cameroonian Catholic Archbishop said.
