Ordained to the priesthood in 1994, Bayemi Matjei was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Obala, Cameroon on 3 December 2009.
[1] Bishop Sosthène Léopold BAYEMI MATJEI was born on 26 December 1964 at Matomb, Nyong and Kelle Division, Centre Region.
From 2000 to 2001, he studied the Pedagogy of the ministerial formational ways in Salesian Pontifical University Papal in Rome.
Since 2004 he is, at the same time: Attaché to the Apostolic Nunciature of Yaoundé, Teacher in the Faculty of Philosophy of Catholic University of Central Africa and Assistant Priest at Saint Vincent Palloti parish of nlongkak.
On Tuesday 27 December 2016, Pope Francis appointed priest Joseph-Marie Ndi-Okalla as new bishop of Mbalmayo diocese.