Personality of The Week: His Grace Andrew Nkea: Member Decastery for Evangelisation.

Be they personal endevours or collective undertakings, readers of The Guardian Post have demonstrated limitless capacity in sighting men and women from across different disciplines.

It is that capacity that has also kept The Guardian Post on its toes to render account every week of just who irrespective of profession, matches such heightened celebrations. 

The Personality of The Week column is a superb leveler that archives and celebrates people be they fans of publicity or those who love to live quiet lives despite the magnitude of their impact.

For Christians, Jesus the greatest teacher of all times firmly declares in Mathew 5:14 that “You are the light of the World; A city built on a hill cannot be hidden”. 

That’s how it operates with everyone, a majority of our readers find doing something great or earns an achievement that puts Cameroon on the global scale. They will always spot that compatriot out.

This week, the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, appointed several servants of God to the Decastery of Evangelisation-Section for First Evangelisation and New Particular Churches at the Vatican. 

Placed under the control of the Pope, the Decastery deals with the proclamation of the Gospel, opening of new churches and other missionary work worldwide.

Cameroonian prelate, His Grace Andrew Nkea Fuanya, Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda, features prominently among the five clerics whom Pope Leo XIV bestowed such confidence. 

Amid a mix of several happenings this week, the appointment of His Grace Nkea, has been the defining news of excitement that has comforted millions of compatriots and brought honour not just to the Body of Christ in the country but the nation as a whole.

Readers of The Guardian Post have sanctioned the appointment as a distinct mark of respect that catapults the Bamenda Archbishop to the podium of honour as Personality of The Week. His Grace Nkea thus makes for the 18th pick of our readers so far in 2026.

Just like Jesus Christ in His ministration recorded in Mathew 5:14 who reminded believers that they are the light of the world, our readers are unanimous that, His Grace Nkea, is an undeniable arrow, bearing irresistible heavenly light.

They are stating that in the spiritual setting of things, His Grace Nkea’s elevation to the Decastery for Evangelisation; thought another window to further serve, it bears a national colouration of honour for Cameroon.

Admirers say the man of God has grown in stature, wisdom and influence, bearing the mark of Christ to the level where, the light he is dispensing as an Apostle has hit global proportions. 

Many are stating and rightly so that the Holy Father did not discern to pick him for the new role by accident. Our readers qualify the new Vatican decoration in the Archbishop’s Mitre and Zuchetto as telling of how blessed Cameroon is in the agenda of God for the global Church.

Your Personality of The Week is an admired servant of God with a visible guiding heavenly presence that has transformed thousands across his priestly journey. 

His Grace Nkea for many, is truly not just the light of His Archdiocese or Catholic denomination but a rare ray of light and father of faith with an ever increasing influence in the Body of Christ.

Like the miracle of the man born blind as recorded in John Chapter 9 whose sight Jesus restored, causing those who knew him as a beggar to be confused, Your Personality of The Week, has in the last decade been an ardent beggar of peace.

His Grace Nkea has not been doing so in His name. He has been proclaiming fearlessly in the name of the risen Christ. While the blind man who washed his eyes in the pool of Siloam returned glorifying God alone, His Grace Nkea has from his Siloam (place of sending forth) been bringing hope to communities and restoring many to their destinies through Christ in and out of season.

Admirers and Christians alike are saying and rightly so that, Nkea is an extraordinary man of God with rare courage, intellect, integrity and humility fit enough to assist the Holy Father in his daunting tasks.

He parallels the blind man in John 9 in that those who doubted the power of God may be doubting the weight of his works for God. The clouds have gathered and it is yet another celebration time for the Archbishop.

Yes, it is the same Nkea who proclaimed and begged for peace in the villages of Manyu Division, Widikum, Bamenda and across the crisis-hit North West and South West Regions.

The preacher has served selflessly through blood and sweat, looking up to Jesus, the author and finisher of his faith. Today, millions are using the rare occasion of his latest Vatican appointment to proclaim that, he was also once serving in the most uncomforting circumstances and now the grace of God has found Him worthy for yet another higher calling.

He features triumphantly this week, for not only making country proud but for being a missionary who speaks truth irrespective of whose ox is gored. His missionary successes, many are saying, make the appointment a new window to help the global church.

Your Personality of The Week is a pastor excellently fulfilling purpose and living a trail for others to emulate. With the latest Papal assignment, many say the recall knowing His Grace Nkea as a selfless and compassionate servant who goes wherever God sends him without murmuring. 

Those who have worked alongside the Archbishop say he is a man after God’s heart. For many, the Archbishop is a true Christian given his known doggedness in always focusing on the glory of God in everything he does. 

He is a servant, helper and uncommon bondslave for Christ and His kingdom. While many run after titles, Nkea has a tradition of service to the Lord sustained from his childhood till date. 

He is a priest who sees every fresh assignment as a signal of God’s abiding grace to manifest His glory true him. Beyond creed and doctrine, this is a man of God through whom the Gospel has also been delivered through shelter to the homeless, hope to the hopeless, food to the hungry and clothing to those who are naked. 

His Grace Nkea bears the true spirit and posture of a servant at all times irrespective of his many elevated positions.

Your Personality of The Week is a shepherd who always puts others ahead of himself. The traces of perfection in his ministry across decades are the many things he has done and continues to do for humanity without expecting anything in return.

His Grace Nkea, the priest, knows that every human being bears the image of God, reason he is known for always sharing his authority to get things done. 

Our readers say, they classed him as the inspirational figure of this season, using this column as a letter of reference from the many weak and defenseless persons His Grace Nkea has come to their rescue and millions directed to Christ through his ministry.

Your Personality of The Week enjoys the right to command for his track record of always obeying others and God most. Nkea for many, is a coin that bears the living likeness of God.

He was born on 29 August 1965, in Widikum, Momo Division of the North West Region. He is the son of a sanitary inspector who served during the West Cameroon, United Republic of Cameroon and Republic of Cameroon era.

Nkea did his priestly formation at the St. Thomas Aquinas Major
Seminary, STAMS, in Bambui, Bamenda. He was ordained priest in 1992. This was done in the Diocese of Buea by the late Bishop Emeritus Bishop Pius Suh Awa. 

In 34 years of his priestly ministry, Your Personality of The Week, has remained phenomenal and distinct. Archbishop Nkea said his first mass at St Claire’s Parish, Menji in his native Lebialem Division of the South West Region in April 1992. 

He succeeded Bishop Emeritus Francis Teke Lysinge as Bishop of Mamfe. Nkea holds a PhD in Canon Law obtained from the Pontifical
Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy.

This was in 2003. His Grace Nkea has served in several pastoral, administrative and academic roles. These include: Curate in St. John Bosco Parish, Mbonge, Meme Division of the South West Region; Parish Priest of St. Luke’s Parish, Nyandong and Chancellor, Buea Diocese.

He lectured Canon Law at John Paul II Institute of Theology, JOPASIT, Buea. In 2008, His Grace Nkea was transferred from JOPASIT to STAMS, where he served as Dean of the Department of Law until 2010.

Between 2007 and 2011, The Most Rev Dr Nkea was Defender of the Bond at the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of First Instance of the Ecclesiastical
Province of Bamenda. 

He served for years as member of the Episcopal
Commission for the Doctrine of Faith of the National Episcopal
Conference of Cameroon.

He became member of the formation team of STAMS in 2008 and in 2009, he was appointed Secretary General of the then Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference.

In 2010 he was appointed pioneer Registrar of the Catholic University of Cameroon, CATUC. In 2011, His Grace Andrew Nkea became the Judicial Vicar of the Tribunal of First Instance for the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda. He was voted pioneer President of the Central African Association of Canon Law in 2011.

In 2018, Your Personality of The Week was elected into the Permanent Council of the Synod of Bishops in Rome. In 2019, His Grace Nkea was equally elected Vice President of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon. His is today serving his second mandate as president of the Conference. 

Some key dates in his life are; July 10, 2013 when he was named Coadjutor Bishop of Mamfe. January 2014, raised to Bishop of Mamfe Diocese. On December 30, 2019, he was appointed Archbishop of Bamenda but took canonical possession of the Archdiocese on February 20, 2020.

Your Personality of The Week was Apostolic Administrator of Mamfe between December 2019 and May 2022. On June 30, 2026, he was named member of the Decastery for Evangelisation at the Vatican.  He is a pillar of faith in Cameroon, Africa and the world. 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3836 of Friday July 03, 2026