# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-teke-lysinge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:04:32.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-teke-lysinge"
name: "Francis Teke Lysinge"
slug: "francis-teke-lysinge"
description: "Francis Teke Lysinge was a Cameroonian Catholic prelate who served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mamfe, in Cameroon from 9 February 1999 until his age-related retirement on 25 January 2014. Before that, from 17 April 1966 until 9 February 1999, he was a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Buea. Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop. He was consecrated at Mamfe on 21 April 1999 by Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi, Archbishop of Douala. On 25 January 2014, Pope Francis accepted the age-related retirement of Bishop Francis Teke Lysinge, from the pastoral care of the Catholic Diocese of Mamfe. The bishop lived on as the Bishop Emeritus of Mamfe in Cameroon. He died om 29 July 2026 at Mamfe, Cameroon."
tagline: "Cameroonian Roman Catholic bishop"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Template-Bishop.svg/330px-Template-Bishop.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1938-12-28"
deathDate: "2026-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.839718666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Francis Teke Lysinge"
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    title: "Francis Teke Lysinge"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Teke_Lysinge"
    title: "Francis Teke Lysinge"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Teke_Lysinge"
    title: "Francis Teke Lysinge"
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    title: "Лизинге, Фрэнсис Теке"
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    title: "Francis Teke Lysinge"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump