Athanase Bala (2 March 1927 – 3 September 2019) was a Cameroonian

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bishop. Bala was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1955. He served as titular bishop of Gegi and coadjutor bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafia The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafia () is a diocese located in the city of Bafia in the ecclesiastical province of Yaoundé in Cameroon. History * July 6, 1965: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Bafia from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ya ...

, Cameroon, from 1976 until 1977. Bala then served as bishop of the Bafia Diocese from 1977 until 2003.

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