Heinrich Vieter

Heinrich Vieter

SAC
Vicar Apostolic of Cameroun
ChurchCatholic Church
SeeApostolic Vicariate of Cameroun
In office18 March 1890 – 7 November 1914
PredecessorPrefecture erected
SuccessorFranziskus Hennemann
Other postTitular Bishop of Paraetonium (1905-1914)
Orders
Ordination1887
Consecration22 January 1905
by Dominikus Willi[1]
Personal details
Born(1853-02-13)13 February 1853
Cappenberg, Selm, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation
Died7 November 1914(1914-11-07) (aged 61)
Jaunde, Kamerun, German Empire

Heinrich Vieter, SAC (13 February 1853, Selm – 7 November 1914, Jaunde) was a German Pallottine missionary to the German colony of Kamerun (today Cameroon).

Missionary work

Heinrich Vieter arrived in Douala with seven other members of the mission on 25 October 1890.[2] Over the next 13 years, Vieter led the Pallottines as they opened missions and schools across the territory.[3]

He befriended the young Ntsama Atangana at the mission school in Kribi; Atangana would later gift the Pallottines with land in Jaunde (Yaoundé) in Kamerun.[4]

When a Bulu leader Martin-Paul Samba was sentenced to death for treason against Germany in 1914, Vieter appealed for a stay, but his requests were ignored.[5]

Teaching

Vieter taught at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen (SOS; usually known in English as the Oriental Seminary) in Berlin sometime between 1909 and 1915, along with Hermann Nekes.[6][7]

Beatification

A process of beatification of Vieter was initiated by the Archbishop of Jaunde in early 2005, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Cameroon.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Bishop Heinrich Vieter, S.A.C." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  2. ↑ Ngoh 92.
  3. ↑ Ngoh 92–3.
  4. ↑ Nde.
  5. ↑ Ngoh 115.
  6. ↑ "Nekes, Hermann Fr. Prof. Dr. (1875-1948)". German Missionaries in Australia. Griffith University. 28 October 1948. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  7. ↑ Great Britain. Foreign Office (1895). Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Annual Series. p. 15-PA11. Retrieved 22 September 2024.

References

  • DeLancey, Mark W., and DeLancey, Mark Dike (2000): Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (3rd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
  • Nde, Paul. "Ntsama, Charles Atangana". The Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Accessed 30 October 2006.
  • Ngoh, Victor Julius (1996): History of Cameroon Since 1800. Limbe: Presbook.
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