Diocese of Rockhampton
Rockhamptonien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Rockhampton, Australia
The Diocese of Rockhampton is a Latin Church suffragan see covering central Queensland, erected in 1882. Bishop Daniel Meagher was installed as its 11th bishop on 28 May 2026, succeeding Bishop Michael McCarthy.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 December 1882
- Latin
- Rockhamptonien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002762
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 95,000
- Population
- 372,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 25.5%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 2,568
- Extent
- 415,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Daniel Meagher
- Born
- 13 September 1950
- Birthplace
- Toowoomba
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton stands in Rockhampton, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Brisbane
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Brisbane.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BrisbaneBrisbane
- Diocese of CairnsCairns
- Diocese of ToowoombaToowoomba
- Diocese of TownsvilleTownsville
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Central Queensland is the territory of the Diocese of Rockhampton, a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church in Australia erected in 1882. It stands as a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Brisbane.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.