Emmanuel Dassi Youfang

Emmanuel Dassi Youfang (born 7 August 1967) is a Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate who is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafia, Cameroon since 2020. Before that, from November 2016 until May 2020 he was Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafoussam, Cameroon. He was appointed bishop by Pope Francis on 7 November 2016. On the same day, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Oescus. He was consecrated and installed bishop at Bafoussam, on 11 July 2020.

Background and education He was born on 7 August 1967, at Baham, Diocese of Bafoussam, in Cameroon. This is located in the Department of Hauts-Plateaux, in the Western Province of the country.

He studied zoology at the University of Yaoundé in Yaounde. He then entered the Paul VI InterDiocesan Major Seminary in Douala, where he studied philosophy and theology before he was ordained a priest in June 2001. He studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1998, graduating with an advanced degree in Sacramentary Liturgy. He holds a Licentiate in Fundamental Theology, awarded by The Cathedral School and the Bernardins College (French:Ecole Cathédrale-Faculté Notre-Dame), in Paris, France in 2012.