Diocese of Bandung
Bandungen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bandung, Indonesia
The Diocese of Bandung is a Latin Church diocese covering West Java in Indonesia, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1932 and raised to a diocese in 1961. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jakarta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 January 1961
- Latin
- Bandungen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Peter
- Annuario code
- 001000808
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 87,247
- Population
- 27,018,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 108
- Catholics per priest
- 808
- Extent
- 24,449 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.6
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
- Antonius Subianto Bunyamin
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. Peter's Cathedral stands in Bandung, 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 Jakarta
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Jakarta.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BogorBogor
- Archdiocese of JakartaJakarta
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
On the island of Java in Indonesia, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung (Latin: Bandungen(sis)) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Jakarta. Its episcopal cathedral is Katedral Santo Petrus (St. Peter's cathedral), in the city of Bandung, Jawa Barat.
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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.