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PLANS ARE UNDERWAY FOR THE PEAK CELEBRATION LATER THIS YEAR.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE FRIENDS OF THE BISHOP ROGAN JUNIOR SEMINARY - SOPPO. THE SECOND TERM STARTS TODAY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
2011 Youth Day: Bishop Rogan Leaves Indelible Mark
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The 45th edition of the National Youth Day celebrated on the 11th of February 2011 was certainly all about Bishop Rogan College.
The Minor seminarians marched past the grand stand so well across the grand stand and the authorities and population gathered at the independent square in Buea clapped ceaselessly as they made their passage.
At the end of the exercise, Bishop Rogan College was ranked first on the list of colleges. It should be noted that the 2011 National Youth day was observed under thet theme, " Youths and the Consolidation of the Achievements of the Reunification of Cameroon".
By Dominic Lakushi
BIROCOL Students Challenge Mount Cameroon
Students of the Bishop Rogan Minor Seminary have gone up and down Mount Cameroon in what has become a tradition for the some seminarians to annually visit the mountain. This year, the hazardous trip was undertaking between the 18th and `19th of February 2011, with some Form Four and Prospective Major seminarians ignoring the cold and steep terrain, and climbing the Chariots of the gods.
A total of 101 students were part of the Bishop Rogan contingent and they were guided by four teachers and hired mountain guides. Most of the students told the Birocol J-club that it was one of the most difficult experience of thier lives, but they enjoyed doing it and the difficulties of the journey have filled them with hope. According to one of the students who reached the summit, brother Paul Nkwain, the mountain trip has mde him to know that something that seems impossible can end up to be simple.
Friday, February 18, 2011
New Student Leaders Promise To Foster BIROCOL's Image
The new prefects of the Bishop Rogan Minor Seminary have been telling students that they will do everything possible to maintain and improve on the reputation of their institution.
According to the new Senior Prefect, Lionel Eladson, speaking on the day of his installation(January 22, 2011) said he has told his team mates to use dialogue at all times and non violent measures to fight against indiscipline and truancy which certainly has no place in the seminary.
Brother Lionel Eladson said his predecessors achieved so much, but noted that much still needs to be done to make BIROCOL a haven of joy, love, friendship and harmony.
On his part, the Deputy Senior Prefect, Brother Joachim Elumbat was very humble, but firm in his address as warned that late coming for activities like prayer, mass and also late coming to the refectory will not be tolerated by those who call themselves the pregenetorians. He revealed that their policies have been designed to take BIROCOL to super quarters.
Earlier on January 17, 2011, while unveiling the new regime, the Rector, Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Anyanwu and his close collaborators called for the new student leaders to be leaders who will serve others and not be served, for according to the rector, leadership is service and as supported by the motto of the school, Dei Populo Sevire(Serve The People of God). Father noted that their service most be filled with love, it must be a service of brotherhood. He warned the new student governors that power is sweet and can be abused.
"We should not come to a point where boys who have been empowered
start doing strange things, intimidating younger ones and favouring others"
Apart from these powerful words, the Rector also congratulated the erstwhile student leaders for a job well done. It should be noted that Eladson and Joachim are taking over the command baton from Nana Carl Cliff and Bemeri Chrysanttus
It was his hope that the new leaders will work within the norms guiding the seminary.
According to the new Senior Prefect, Lionel Eladson, speaking on the day of his installation(January 22, 2011) said he has told his team mates to use dialogue at all times and non violent measures to fight against indiscipline and truancy which certainly has no place in the seminary.
Brother Lionel Eladson said his predecessors achieved so much, but noted that much still needs to be done to make BIROCOL a haven of joy, love, friendship and harmony.
On his part, the Deputy Senior Prefect, Brother Joachim Elumbat was very humble, but firm in his address as warned that late coming for activities like prayer, mass and also late coming to the refectory will not be tolerated by those who call themselves the pregenetorians. He revealed that their policies have been designed to take BIROCOL to super quarters.
Earlier on January 17, 2011, while unveiling the new regime, the Rector, Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Anyanwu and his close collaborators called for the new student leaders to be leaders who will serve others and not be served, for according to the rector, leadership is service and as supported by the motto of the school, Dei Populo Sevire(Serve The People of God). Father noted that their service most be filled with love, it must be a service of brotherhood. He warned the new student governors that power is sweet and can be abused.
"We should not come to a point where boys who have been empowered
start doing strange things, intimidating younger ones and favouring others"
Apart from these powerful words, the Rector also congratulated the erstwhile student leaders for a job well done. It should be noted that Eladson and Joachim are taking over the command baton from Nana Carl Cliff and Bemeri Chrysanttus
It was his hope that the new leaders will work within the norms guiding the seminary.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Bishop Rogan College Anthem
Chorus:
God Bless our dear college and bless Birocolians everywhere, God bless our dear college, and protect it.
Verse One:
Bishop Rogan, the college of God's messengers to serve him in the world. We are forming priests and good Christians who shall teach by words and deeds.
God Bless our dear college and bless Birocolians everywhere, God bless our dear college, and protect it.
Verse Two:
Birocolians, you've been chosen by God this we know to be other Christs in the world, to be salt of the earth and lux mundi, we must shine for all to see.
God Bless our dear college and bless Birocolians everywhere, God bless our dear college, and protect it. (Repeat)
God Bless our dear college and bless Birocolians everywhere, God bless our dear college, and protect it.
Verse One:
Bishop Rogan, the college of God's messengers to serve him in the world. We are forming priests and good Christians who shall teach by words and deeds.
God Bless our dear college and bless Birocolians everywhere, God bless our dear college, and protect it.
Verse Two:
Birocolians, you've been chosen by God this we know to be other Christs in the world, to be salt of the earth and lux mundi, we must shine for all to see.
God Bless our dear college and bless Birocolians everywhere, God bless our dear college, and protect it. (Repeat)
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Of Excellence and Sports
Bishop Rogan Basketball Team successfully defeated their bitter rivals in basketball, St. Joseph's College Sasse by 61 points to 51. Coach Efose Emile of Sasse College was not a very happy man on that day.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
2010 World Day Of Catholic Education Ends in Fiango
The 11th edition of the World Day of Catholic Schools went down memory lane in Fiango, Kumba on Friday, November 19, 2010 with a memorable closing ceremony that began with a high mass solemnised by the Bishop of Buea, His lordsip Immanuel Balanjo Bushu, assisted by a colleague of priests.
Bishop Rogan Junior seminary joined 13 other colleges to pass across the message of care, solidarity and love reigning in our colleges. The three day event was characterised by socio-cultural and sporting activities at the St. Francis College in Fiango that was created in 1949.
Bishop Rogan College won Basketball and Volleyball beating two perennial rivals, St. Josephs College Sasse and St. Paul's College Bonjongo respectively.
"We could have won singing and drama but things fell apart" said the head of the Bishop Rogan delegation, Mr Limnyuy Ndzelen.
St. Joseph's College Sasse won traditional dance and drama, while the Regina College Mutengene came first in singing and football.
The event took place within the context of growth and progress made in our catholic colleges within the past 70 years. And as the Catholic Education Secretary, Fr. George Nkeze said, it offerd a great opportunity for all and sundry to reflect on how far catholic education has gone and how far it still needs to go.
By Solomon Lyonga Ikundi
2010 World Day Of Catholic Education in Fiango, Pictures Tell The Story
The school choir of Bishop Rogan College displaying at the St. Francis College in Fiango. Their voices were sweet and angelic and the message passed across was quite explicit; catholic colleges are caring communities.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Bishop Immanuel Bushu launches Bishop Rogan Seminary, Soppo 2010/2011 Academic Year
Buea Diocese's Regina Pacis Cathedral was on Sunday, September 19 jammed to capacity as a new academic year was officially launched during a High Mass which the Local Ordinary, Mgr. Immanuel Bushu, presided at.
Bishop Bushu was also representing the other bishops of Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province who form the Minor Seminary's board of governors. The seminary's three resident priests assisted the Bishop during the Eucharistic celebration which Minor Seminarians themselves animated.
While preaching, Bishop Immanuel Bushu thanked God for the success recorded during the previous academic year in which Minor seminarians scored a clean sheet of 100 percent in the Cameroon General Certificate Examination at the Ordinary and Advanced levels. Bishop Bushu said a thanksgiving and inauguration Mass for a new academic year was the best thing the Minor Seminarians could do as Christians.
He enjoined every one present not to be servants of God and of riches, for none can serve the two with the same zeal. He added God created people with a free will, but as Christians, every thought, word, and deed should be owed to the Creator's Divine Will. "When our actions are good, things work out well, but when we are filled with evil thoughts and actions, we continue to separate ourselves from God," the Bishop noted.
Mgr. Immanuel Bushu warned against allowing our spirits to think only of money and material wealth "--- for such are the challenges preventing us from serving God dedicatedly," he pointed out. He urged Minor Seminarians to be more prayerful to steer clear of worldly distractions which could divert their attention from their priestly vocation.
The Local Ordinary asked formators to be role models, "--- for children by their very nature learn to do not the things they are told to do, but what elderly people in their community are doing." The Bishop called on all present to fill their hearts with God's love and every good thought, word and deed will naturally flow and spread to the rest of the world.
Before the final blessings, the Rector, Rev Fr. Bartholomew Anyanwu expressed gratitude to the Bishop for leaving other pressing duties to celebrate the inaugural Mass for the seminary community. He welcomed new seminarians and formators, while calling on the older members not to loose the vision Bishop Rogan had when he created the Minor Seminary 40 years ago. "That of forming young boys who aspire to serve as priests in Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province," Fr. Anyanwu stressed.
The rector re-iterated the college objective for the 2010/2011 Academic Year, which is, "Co-responsibility, Priestly formation and Academic Distinction." He enjoined BIROCOL family members to ensure the objectives are met and to know that God's Will for them is to be in the seminary and not in another college.
While preaching, Bishop Immanuel Bushu thanked God for the success recorded during the previous academic year in which Minor seminarians scored a clean sheet of 100 percent in the Cameroon General Certificate Examination at the Ordinary and Advanced levels. Bishop Bushu said a thanksgiving and inauguration Mass for a new academic year was the best thing the Minor Seminarians could do as Christians.
He enjoined every one present not to be servants of God and of riches, for none can serve the two with the same zeal. He added God created people with a free will, but as Christians, every thought, word, and deed should be owed to the Creator's Divine Will. "When our actions are good, things work out well, but when we are filled with evil thoughts and actions, we continue to separate ourselves from God," the Bishop noted.
Mgr. Immanuel Bushu warned against allowing our spirits to think only of money and material wealth "--- for such are the challenges preventing us from serving God dedicatedly," he pointed out. He urged Minor Seminarians to be more prayerful to steer clear of worldly distractions which could divert their attention from their priestly vocation.
The Local Ordinary asked formators to be role models, "--- for children by their very nature learn to do not the things they are told to do, but what elderly people in their community are doing." The Bishop called on all present to fill their hearts with God's love and every good thought, word and deed will naturally flow and spread to the rest of the world.
Before the final blessings, the Rector, Rev Fr. Bartholomew Anyanwu expressed gratitude to the Bishop for leaving other pressing duties to celebrate the inaugural Mass for the seminary community. He welcomed new seminarians and formators, while calling on the older members not to loose the vision Bishop Rogan had when he created the Minor Seminary 40 years ago. "That of forming young boys who aspire to serve as priests in Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province," Fr. Anyanwu stressed.
The rector re-iterated the college objective for the 2010/2011 Academic Year, which is, "Co-responsibility, Priestly formation and Academic Distinction." He enjoined BIROCOL family members to ensure the objectives are met and to know that God's Will for them is to be in the seminary and not in another college.
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| Cathedral Church Small soppo where the young seminarians attend mass |
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| Bishop Bushu during the launching of this 2010/2011 academic year |
A School For Future Priests
Befo
re the official birth of Bishop Rogan College (minor 
seminary) in 1964, the Holy Family seminary had already been in existence at Sasse. However, due to the insufficient enrolment and irregular number of seminarians, Bishop Peter Rogan started making attempts to liberate the seminary from Sasse. In 1961, Bishop Rogan tendered his resignation to the Holy Father, Pope John XXII. He continued, however, to live in Soppo and, on 24th August, 1962, the Bishop conferred Episcopal ordinary on his Successor, the Right Reverend Jules Peeters (Mill Hill Missionary). It was Bishop Jules Peters who executed Bishop Emeritus Rogan’s dream into reality and, thus named the seminary after him. By 28th September, 1964, the first batch of students enrolled into Form one and the institution now offers Education from Form one to Upper Sixth both in the Arts and Sciences and is also a formation House for prospective seminarians for the priesthood and overseeing the affairs of this institution is Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Anyanwu, a priest of the diocese of Buea.
re the official birth of Bishop Rogan College (minor 
seminary) in 1964, the Holy Family seminary had already been in existence at Sasse. However, due to the insufficient enrolment and irregular number of seminarians, Bishop Peter Rogan started making attempts to liberate the seminary from Sasse. In 1961, Bishop Rogan tendered his resignation to the Holy Father, Pope John XXII. He continued, however, to live in Soppo and, on 24th August, 1962, the Bishop conferred Episcopal ordinary on his Successor, the Right Reverend Jules Peeters (Mill Hill Missionary). It was Bishop Jules Peters who executed Bishop Emeritus Rogan’s dream into reality and, thus named the seminary after him. By 28th September, 1964, the first batch of students enrolled into Form one and the institution now offers Education from Form one to Upper Sixth both in the Arts and Sciences and is also a formation House for prospective seminarians for the priesthood and overseeing the affairs of this institution is Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Anyanwu, a priest of the diocese of Buea.
We Are Ready For World Catholic School Day-Rector
The Rector of the Bishop Rogan Minor Seminary, Fr. Bartholomew Anyanwu says a high level Bishop Rogan Colleg delegation will leave on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 for the 2010 World Catholic School day at the St. Francis College, Kumba.
Bishop Rogan College (BIROCOL) will be involved in choral music, traditional dance, drama, volleyball and basketball finals in the three day event that ends Friday. Rehearsals have been quite serious in BIROCOL as the Volleyballers and Basketballers will play St. Francis and St. Joseph's College respectively in the finals.
The theme for this year's world catholic day is "catholic colleges as caring communities"
Courage to all the athletes that will be representing the Bishop Rogan Junior Seminary, Soppo.
Bishop Rogan College (BIROCOL) will be involved in choral music, traditional dance, drama, volleyball and basketball finals in the three day event that ends Friday. Rehearsals have been quite serious in BIROCOL as the Volleyballers and Basketballers will play St. Francis and St. Joseph's College respectively in the finals.
The theme for this year's world catholic day is "catholic colleges as caring communities"
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| happy junior seminarians |
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