The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Cameroon
This page contains a list of the greatest Cameroonian Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Cameroon. This makes Cameroon the birth place of the 115th most number of Religious Figures behind Honduras and Hong Kong.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cameroonian Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Cameroonian Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Christian Tumi (1930 - 2021)
With an HPI of 51.03, Christian Tumi is the most famous Cameroonian Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Christian Wiyghan Tumi (15 October 1930 – 3 April 2021) was a Cameroonian prelate of the Catholic Church who was archbishop of Douala from 1991 to 2009. He was bishop of Yagoua from 1980 to 1982. After serving as coadjutor bishop of Garoua beginning in 1982, he was bishop there from 1984 to 1991. He was made a cardinal 1988. Tumi was the first and so far the only cardinal from Cameroon.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as religious figures born between 1930 and 1930. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased religious figures include Christian Tumi.
