Fr. Tsimi was diagnosed with congenital hepatitis B back in 2014, Fr. Ebode said, and added, “After undergoing therapy for years, doctors declared Fr. Tsimi healthy in 2019.”
Since then, he remained of good health until February 2024 “when he had a serious stomach ache and decided to go for a checkup,” Fr. Ebode recalled.
“The results showed Fr. Tsimi had a giant tumour caused by a reactivation of hepatitis B,” he said, and added, “Given the extent of the tumour, doctors called for an emergency surgery, which was performed on February 19 and lasted more than six hours.”
In his April 22 homily, Fr. Alfonso recalled that some days after the surgery, the late Catholic Priest “sent me an audio saying he was very tired but with great optimism.”
The Italian-born Catholic Priest disclosed that “even in these circumstances he (Fr. Tsimi) celebrated Mass every day accompanied by someone in his room and that he was always very well accompanied by his colleagues from the Academy.”
Born in July 1992 in Mbandjock in the Diocese of Obala, Fr. Tsimi, an alumni of Mary Queen of the Apostles Major Seminary, was ordained a Priest in August 2020.
The holder of a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome served as curate at Mary Admirable Mother Nkomotou Parish until July 2021, when he was appointed Deputy Chancellor of Obala Diocese, a position he held until his return to Rome.
He was a holder of a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.
“I think of Fr. Tsimi and I see him like this: He is small and big, he lived love to the end. He was only 4 years in the Priesthood, but he lived his passion by accepting the will of God,” Fr, Alfonso said in his Funeral Mass homily.
In fact, he continued, “when the doctors told him that nothing more could be done, he said that he was going to prepare for his death. We asked ourselves, we asked ourselves why this? A young priest with all the qualities and on formation in the Pontifical Academy!”
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